Thanks to everyone for the everymac.com site. I'll check it out. I already have gone to E-bay and typed in my model, but came up dry. I'm sure it was user error-I'll try again.
As for your iMacs, you could be running into two problems. The first is
that there were several changes made with Mac OS 9 that made older versions
of certain software incompatible with it. One of the mail culprits is Adobe
Type Manager. If you have a version of ATM prior to version 4.5.2 it will
Mine is 4.0.2. That must have been part of it--although after I trashed the ATM control panel, my instability issues continued.
The second problem you could be running into, is that recently, Apple has
started making their system CD's machine specific. In other words, the disk
is designed to work only with the type of machine it came with. Usually,
this will mean that when you try to install something from a disk that came
with another machine, you will not be allowed to because the firmware is
not the correct type.
I figured it was something like that, however it did allow the installation (It would not on our Wallstreet PowerBook). Is there any way to do a custom install that would avoid installing all the cd-rom/DVD specific extensions, etc. from the OS 9 and then just re-install (or keep) the ones from my 8.6 specific to this machine?
Also, if anyone out there has any opinions on ConflictCatcher 8.0 and its compatibility with other software I'd love to hear them. (I have PhotoShop 5.5, Illustrator 8.0, Dreamweaver 3.0, Filemaker Pro 3, to name a few) I bought it because MacWorld gave it 5 mice (sucker??) and I'm a fan of D. Pogue who wrote the manual (shoulda just joined the fan club), but it really has not been useful to me as most of my problems are intermittent. I suspect it may be the culprit at times.
Thanks again,
Stacey
Hi,
I'm looking to sell my old 7200/90 (you know, that odd,
non-upgradable model). Anyone know of a site that that can give me a
ball-park resale value? Or maybe some of you might know. It has 96 MB
RAM.
I read in a previous post there there was a site that did just this,
but did not get the URL.
Also, I have 2 iMacs: #1 is a 333/192 running OS 8.6, #2 is a 450/192
running OS 9.0.4. #2 has fire wire and DVD drive, while #1 does not.
I would like to upgrade #1 to 9.0.4 (via the CDs that came with #2)
but when I last tried the result was multiple crashes in every
application, including the finder on start-up. I gave up and did a
clean install of 8.6.
My question: Does this have anything to do with the DVD or Firewire
Extensions that are being installed? I wiped all those out and even
ran ConflictCatcher, but to no avail (CC's assessment was that Adobe
ATM was the culprit, but CC is another story)...Could this be an
Apple software piracy safeguard? Do I have to purchase a new copy of
> OS 9 to install on #1, rather than using the CD's that came with #2?
> Even though I personally own both computers (one personal, one for
> business) am I supposed to maintain separate software for each
one--ethically and otherwise?
I realize this is a mouthful--thanks in advance for input,
Stacey
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