Buying a Mac secondhand

Posted by: Derek Wright on 23 July 2004

I am going to look at a 9 month old G5 Powermac with quite a few bits and pieces and the type of software that I am looking for

Any tips as to what I should be looking for

The seller says he has the receipts and can demo the machine for me and let me try it out.


THanks for any comments

Derek

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Posted on: 28 July 2004 by garyi
Connect the two with earthnet, open the preferences in mac and then sharing and allow the mac file sharing and windows sharing.

Can't help you with a PC.

You join them in in the go menu in the finder, but I agree this is crap instructions.

Don't forget the apple website. www.apple.com/support

And also the apple discussions area where you will recieve and answer in seconds from the mac faithfull
Posted on: 03 August 2004 by Derek Wright
Mark and Gary

Progress to date on the incorporation of the G5 into my cluster of machines

Good news

I have the G5 recognising my main OS/2 machine and it is able to read and write files to the OS/2 machine.

The Palm pilot is syncing with the G5 using a USB Serial adapter as pointed to by Mark

Frustrating news

Printing - The G5 can see the OPtra R+ and actually puts data into the print spooler directory on the OS/2 machine but the file immediately disappears at the end of the transfer I have installed GIMP Print to see if this gave more support and have installed the Lexmark PS driver

The Os/2 machine can Ping the G5 and can see the computer name but cannot see any of the folders/directories on the G5 so at the moment I have to work from the G5 always.

So now I will go back to the forums to try and ge more information especially about Lan based printing

Oh and the real reason that I bought the G5 - Photoshop etc - working real well - only challenge now is to improve my skill level -

So a lot more reading to be done

Derek

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Posted on: 16 August 2004 by Derek Wright
Continuing the saga of my major systems integration project.

An ethernet card has been added to the printer, a valid ip address added to the printer and connected to the router and now the Mac can print to the Optra R+.
I am not impressed with the user interface for the printer driver - too many sub menus when all the options could be on one menu

Only one challenge left and that is getting the OS/2 machine to read and write files on the Mac - I think Samba is the way forward but there is a lot of documentation to read.

Derek

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Posted on: 16 August 2004 by Berlin Fritz
Had a firsthand burger king once !