Found use for old 500MHz G3 iBook

After too many failures trying to get my iWeb created website uploaded to my iDisk I now host it at home with the help of no-ip.com.
And it works rather well, My setup is all wireless so the iBook is in the spare bedroom, actually under the bed. No problems uploading iWeb updates and it seems quite happy that it has found a use.
I have my Airport Extreme port mapping set-up to point to the iBook ip address and a non-standard port to apaches port. The website is mainly for the family, not one of the websites looking to be listed on google.
I was considering getting an old G4 mini for the job, no screen, keyboard or mouse to deal with after it was up and running but the iBook was just sitting there doing not much.
The mini seems ideal for a small office, cheap enough to purchase one for web, another for email and maybe another to for secure web-mail.

Yes, you could but you would have to network the two computers via ethernet because the original iMacs have no firewire port so you can't use Target Disk Mode. The iMac's drive is fairly small and the computer would need to be running in order to access the drive (using much more power than an external drive). You would be better off buying an inexpensive external firewire drive.
John

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