Re: Sweet16 and G3 Macs

[Steven Nelson <steven-nelson@uiowa.edu>]

Someone asked:
What are the speeds of your G3 machines.  You would need at least a
machine running 600 to make it work right.  As to reading the install
disk, your machines should see the disk, it just will not install/
update
and if it does will have real problems running it.  I have a G3-600
iMac
that runs Tiger ok, but my G3-366 ClamShell will not.
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My iMacG3s are old, 266MHz machines.  Clamshell, tray loading.  I also
run 10.3 on a old PM7600 with a 1GHz G3. Same problem - the CD drive
won't read a Tiger DVD to install.  These were all before the Combo
drives, which could read DVDs.
I imagine that installing Tiger on a iMacG3 may require using
XPostFacto.  XPF is what I used to install Panther on the 7600, and a
WGS8550 with a G4 cpu.

My machines:  PM6500 with 10.2.8 (jaguar), PM7600 with 10.3.9
(panther), 2 iMac G3 with 10.3.9, WGS 8550 with 10.4.11(tiger), 2 iMac
G4 with 10.4.11, 2 iMac G5 with 10.5.7 (leopard).  I also have a
couple ][GS 6.0.1 running and several IIGSes and IIes in storage.   I
need a hobby! ;-)