Blimey …
I seem to have adopted a very retro, vintage iMac, from some old friends … !
It’s a great looking piece of kit, it really is; complete with two firewire 400 ports, two USB ports, a dial up modem, and an ethernet port.
Which, if I’ve read the various entries, dotted around the net correctly, means this one of the 1998/9, revision c, Graphite version; complete with Mac OS 9.2.
And the Hockey Puck mouse*!
Dear me, I can see why people complained about that mouse … !
Try putting a regular mouse sideways, and the button on the long side, you’ll get the effect.
I’m rather pleased to be able to be able to give it a home; my bedroom’s becoming a veritable Mac museum!
Now all I need to do is get a permanent kettle lead.
And the install discs.
Ooh, and getting the passwords off Chris’d come in handy … !
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Quite what Allison’ll make of it, I don’t know … !
I do know she was over, today, so I could help her set up her laptop’s copy of Evolution Mail.
And figure out a minor problem …
I do know we’d managed to install the Jaunty Jackalope version of Ubuntu on her Ergos laptop; and to hook it up to her o2 mobile broadband dongle, with the following setting, in the Network Connections app.
Number: *99#
Username: o2bb
Password: password
APN: m-bb.o2.co.uk
The awkward part of it, is that for some reason, it wouldn’t let Allison reconnect to the ’net, yesterday.
So, with a bit of flair, she deleted the group of saved settings, and re-entered them. Something we did, today, after installing the various updates.
Which, happily, seemed to work.
I think the next stage is to see if we can’t download a calendar app, something I know she’s keen to find.
After all, Evolution is nice.
But, although I’ve managed to set up three or four different accounts, with OS X’s on-board Mail.app, I’m still a little unsure if I’ve set up Evolution, correctly.
I’ll let you know, as soon as I find out!
* Exactly WHY the phrase Horse Puckey springs to mind, here, I really don’t know …
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