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network imac and g3? - 2009/04/06 21:22
I just bought this new intel imac with leopard os10.5 something. I was told that it would network with my old G3 beige mini tower through ethernet. I'm not so sure now that I've been reading about the intel and power pc difference.
My G3 has 233 mhz with 384 ram and has the old round serial ports. I have a drawing tablet, scanner, and vinyl cutting machine all hooked up to it. I archive my work from an internal zip drive. I mainly use photoshop3 and illustrator6, I know, it's now antiques, 20th century stuff, but it all worked good untill recently. I had a printer but it died and I cant find one with the old serial cables. Is it possible to network the 2 computers through ethernet? I dont have firewire on the G3. I Havent tried connecting the two because my G3 is crashing at start-up right now, thats another question for another forum though. I went to the apple store for a battery and came home with a new Imac too. Also, I have a sony digital cd camera, since the G3 didnt have usb ports, I always put the minicd.s in the cd drive to get the pics on my computer, will the camera transfer pics to my new IMAC from the usb cable? or will the mini cd's work with the ring in the cd drive?
It looks like I'm gonna have to buy new photoshop, illustrator, tablet, vinyl cutting software, dongle and usb cable? if I cant network my 2 macs?
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