Tangerine iMac to G5

Hello, is there a way to transfer files from my VERY old tangerine iMac G3 to my iMac G5 via USB? And if so, how do I do it?
Thanks!

I don't think you can conduct a USB transfer without a special "USB bridge" cable. A better and proven solution is using the built-in ethernet.
I moved from a Blueberry iMac to a new iMac G5. I simply hooked the two together with a CROSSOVER ethernet cable (about 8 bucks at Radioshack), tinkered with the file sharing/ethernet on the G5 and then pulled the folders I needed off the G3 to the G5.
Here's a nice little tutorial fromApplelinks.
Hope this helps.

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Can I install Mac OS X 10.3(jaguar) on a Tangerine iMac G3 333mhz

I was wondering if the Jaguar Mac OS X 10.3 installation disks that I have for an eMac will work on an iMac G3 flavored edition 333mHz computer. Or is there a separate version for this particular iMac? I have it running 10.1 now, but need Safari for the internet. HELP!!! I am not a complete idiot when it comes to macs, but not sure about this as the installation CDs say it is for an eMac.
Thanks to everyone who answers!!!
iMac G3 333mHz Mac OS X (10.1.x) Clueless, well a little bit of a clue

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
10.3 =Panther, not Jaguar.
10.2 = Jaguar.
I was wondering if the Jaguar Mac OS X 10.3 installation disks that I have for an eMac will work on an iMac G3 flavored edition 333mHz computer.
No. You can't install the gray disks from one Mac on another Mac of a different model or vintage.
The Tangerine iMac has some limitations:
1. Firmware must be upgraded while booted in 9 or 8, or your display will go permanently blank:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117
2. If you erased 9 or 8, and you find you need a version of 9 or 8 installed, you will need to install the drivers before installing 9 or 8.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75275
which will probably require wiping your hard drive.
3. Hard drives over 8 GB need to be partitioned.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106235
4. Hard drives over 120 GB need to be partitioned as well:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178
5. No Firewire means backing up is a pain, and very slow.
Jaguar that will work after the firmware has been updated looks like:
Panther which will work after the firmware has been upgraded looks like:
Considering the difficulty, and your noviceness, I'd say, stay where you are until you can afford a newer Mac.

A tangerine imac walks into a bar...

I just pulled out my old tangerine and graphite iMacs out of storage. They both work fine but I don't have room for them. Are they worth anything? Would anyone take them as a donation? How do I erase all my stuff before I let them go?

Someday I may kick myself, but I gave away my old Bondi Blue Rev.B iMac 233 MHz on Craigslist. I hated to do that but after getting my new 21.5 inch iMac and still keeping my flat panel iMac G4 "iLamp" (still works great after 7 years and I'm running Tiger on it) I just felt like I didn't have the room to start a collection.
I felt really good about the give away. The recipient was a twenty something year old guy in the metro area who is taking some computer courses and had a project to do some programming in Classic Mac (I have no idea why, ha ha). He said he had cut his computer teeth on a Bondi Blue growing up but that his machine had finally bitten the digital dust. He came and picked up the old iMac and I even threw in a couple of old Classic Mac trouble shooting books I had no use for. Oh, and I even threw in a Conflict Catcher disk (that gives me chills to even think of the extension conflicts we used to have to fight in Classic Mac!). Of course I gave him all the Mac OS disks that came with the iMac and I gave him my retail OS 9 disk that I had used to upgrade with.
That's my experience with giving away an old iMac.
Regards,
Steve M.
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Tangerine imac doesn't display

hi all
our machine goes 'dong' but doesn't display anything unless we do a pram reset (every time, even with a restart) in which case it works fine. we were going to change the pram battery unless anyone has any other ideas
thanks in advance

Sounds like a Pram batt to me!

Can't Reinstall OS - Stuck in no-man's-land! | iMac Tangerine on OS X

Hello all,
Had a quick question that I can't seem to find a proper answer to..
I'm wanting to place my OS X Install Discs on my External HD as backups.
Turns out I have another computer (iMac Tangerine) that does not have a DVD-ROM drive, just an OLD CD-ROM drive (that doesn't even support CD-R incidentally - so that's out)...
Sort of stumped. My best guess is that maybe if I move the OS X Discs onto my External Hard Drive - using my MacBook - I can then plug the Ex. HD into the iMac (has firewire) and perform the much-needed OS X Reinstall....
Tools:
MacBook
LaCie 150GB External HD
iMac - fried OS, no System Pref. No Disk Utility, won't accept online apps I've tried to download etc. etc..
Need to kill the whole thing off - and reinstall everything on the iMac.
Please help.
Thanks very much in advance...
[email protected]

A Tangerine iMac has either:
Tray-loading CD-ROM - No Firewire, or
Slot-loading DVD-ROM - With Firewire.
If it's the former get the Tiger Retail DVD swapped for CDs (form)
If it's the latter you should just be able to do the re-install.
mrtotes

Another hard drive swap question - re: 8GB partition for OSX in iMac 266

I have a Tangerine iMac 266 that I am setting up for a neighbor's son. The original 6GB hard drive was toast, so I swapped in an old 10GB drive that had previously been removed from an iMacDV 400. The 10GB "new" drive had OSX 10.3.1 and OS 9.1 on a single partition. I am aware that these early iMacs need OSX in a first partition of less than 8GB, so I expected that I would need to partition the "new" drive. However, while I was loading an install CD after powering up, the iMac booted fine into OSX, despite it NOT being located in a first partition of less than 8GB (and has continued operating well - booting multiple times in OS X and 9, surfing the net, etc...the only weirdness is a refusal of Word X to run).
I thought this was impossible, and in researching this I found that the Apple support site says that, for this computer, "Mac OS X must be installed on a volume that is contained entirely within the first 8 GB of its ATA hard disk." see http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106235
My Questions:
Is the 8GB limit only related to iINSTALLING OSX on these machines (and not RUNNING OSX)?
Will the machine run into problems later if a portion of the OS (i.e., during an update) gets installed outside of the first 8GB of the disk?
One of the log files says that the driver is out of date for the RageproC, and Classic applications that require more than 4MB of VRAM say that I don't have enough VRAM to run, yet the iMac has 6MB of VRAM (2 on MB and 4 in slot as listing by the system profiler) - do I need to (or should I) reinstall the system software (I already tried loading the latest ATI drivers, but it did't help)?
P.S. - to add more data points on the subject of RAM upgrades in these iMacs, my iMac 266 would not accept a 256MB PC-100 SO-DIMM that worked fine in an iBook and in the upper slot of a Rev. A iMac 233. Well, it accepted it, but only recognized the first 128MB.

I believe Duane is correct. Even with Mac OS 9, you can run fine as long as all OS components used during startup are within the first 8GB of space. However, (even with Mac OS 9) as soon as something used during startup ends up beyond that limit, you will get open firmware or a gray screen at startup. The Mac OS X does not allow the installation target to exceed the limit as a preventative measure, not because it won't work at all.
The best "non-technical" explanation I have heard as to why, is this... The IDE hardware (and its driver) can only "see" the first 8GB of space during the initial start up process before the OS is loaded. Once start up completes, control is handed to the OS, which can see the entire drive. Therefore, apps have no problem running from beyond the limit. Only components needed before the hand-off is constrained to the 8GB limit.
FYI - On my iMac and 120GB drive, 7.78 GB (as shown in a Finder window) is the precise point where the Mac OS X Installer allows the volume to be the install target. "Precise" to with a few hundred MB's.

USB Modem problems on old iMac

*I was reffered here from another subforum, so this is actually cross-posted. Sorry... *
I'm trying to help my dad install a new modem on his tray-loading tangerine iMac. This was my first computer, and she's still doing well except for the modem being taken out by lightning, for the second time. The first external modem he used was the Supra Express USB modem, and it remains in the network list. I've asked him, but there doesn't seem to be a way to delete the previous modem config--all the options are grayed out.
The error he keeps getting is "communication device does not exist." He's installed the Smart One 56K USB External Data Fax Modem for Mac (56USBPMAC). It's supposed to be compatible. He's configured the modem with his ISP info and selected the modem script from the scripts list from the Network Prefs, but he still get this error (it's the same as the one he got before installing).
Anyone know what could be the problem?
His info:
iMac G3 rev. B CD-ROM tray-loading
OS 10.3
RAM 96k

Hi Jessica
This is from memory so I may get things wrong.
In the network pane you should get the option to select the order in which the coms devices are chosen. Usually you just drag the one you want to the top of the list and that's that.
I'm not sure if it works with modems as I haven't dealt with one in over a year now!

Two 1st Generation iMacs using 1 Broadband Cable connection - Best way?

Hi guys,
I have a snow iMac (600Mhz) running 10.2.8 - I have it set up with Virgin Cable Broadband (formerly Telewest/NTL using a Motorola Surfboard Cable Modem), my mum has passed us her old Tangerine iMac (400Mhz) also running 10.2.8 - I currently have both set up in one of our bedrooms, they are about 2 metres apart on seperate desks.
I have asked this to quite a few people but am getting different answers all the time so I am hoping you guys here can help in giving me a definitive answer:
What's the best way for me to get both of these iMacs on via by Cable connection? - I don't want wireless, I just want wired ethernet.
Some people are insisting I need a wired router similar to this:
http://www.broadbandstuff.co.uk/productinfo.php?productsid=225
Whilst others are saying that I just need a switch device similar to this:
http://www.broadbandstuff.co.uk/productinfo.php?productsid=113&osCsid=7b23b40476276b3714287fcad8b20a38
Can anyone confirm please?
Thanks

I know I have closed this thread off, but wanted to
ask Alan one more question...
Did you have to recontact NTL when you got your
router to supply them with the new code on the router
before it would work?- A guy at my work has said I
will need to do this, is this correct?
Hello IntelMacMini,
No I did not contact NTL about anything. I think you may have to do this if this is the first time you have made any connection to the internet.
I presume you already have one computer connected to the broadband modem as I had.
All I did was unplug the ethernet cable from the modem to the computer and plugged it into the internet port on router and then ran an ethernet patch cable from one of the numbered ports to the computer. Then I switched on the router and followed the instructions that came with the router until it was up and working and connected with the internet.
Then I connected a patch cable to another numbered port on the router and plugged it into the ethernet port on the second computer.
Next switched off both computers, the router and the modem in that order.
Then switched on the modem waited until all was working ( lights steady ), then the router until all the right lights were steady, then the first computer and checked that it connected to the internet, and finally the second computer and checked the connection.
With the third old g3 powerbook OS 9.2.2 I just set the TCP/IP to connect via ethernet and configure using DHCP server and plugged it in without switching anything off and it worked first time.
It sounds a bit complicated but if an old technophobe like me can do it anyone can.
Hope this helps,
Alan
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Imac 233 - beeps and doesn't startup

Hey,
i'm a new poster on this forum, looking for some help.
My tangerine imac 233 is behaving strangely: when switching it on it beeps 4 times and doesn't give any additional sign of being alive.
i can hear both the fan and the hd going, but there is no sign at all that something is happening.
The screen is not giving any sign of life and there is no response from the keyboard (ie caps lock doesn't switch on and the power button doesn't allow to switch off the imac, though it allows to turn the power on).
I've tried to reset the NVRAM, but i couldn't see any result, as the imac doesn't even get to the Chimes sound.
I'd love to keep using this imac, is there anything i can do to keep it alive?
many thanks
benedetto
iBook G4 - 1,25Ghz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Ciao e benvenuto alle discussioni di Apple,
4 Beeps is the Power On Self Test telling you something is wrong. I think you need to take this in to a professional.
You can recover the data by installing the hard disk in an external enclosure and transferring it to the iBook.
mrtotes

Hard drive won't spin up on old iMac

My wife has an ageing Tangerine iMac which she uses nowadays as a data backup machine. It doesn't get booted up very often and the other day, when she tried to boot it, the hard disc wouldn't spin up.
I've started the iMac succesfully from the system CD, but the hard drive still won't spin up, so when I tried to use disk repair, etc, the hard drive's icon doesn't appear in the window.
I've tried zapping the PRAM but to no avail.
Please can anyone help?

If you can open up the case, you can try reviving the hard drive one last time. some people have had luck with sealing the drive in a plastic bag (to keep out moisture) and putting it in the freezer, and then firing it up.
Also you could try giving it a good sharp shock, which sometimes gets you one more spin-up.
1.25GHz Mac mini 1024MB , Airport+Bluetooth  17" 1.67GHz PowerBook 2GB Mac OS X (10.4.8)  iMac Indigo 350MHz (10.3.9)

Can't print from Network

I have an iMac 24" 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running 10.5.5 and my wife has a Tangerine iMac running 10.3.9. We are connected via built in ethernet I have the printer (HP 960c) attached to my computer. We can access each other's computers fine but she cannot print to my printer. Her system recognizes the printer but printing jobs go off into cyberspace some where. Any suggestions?

Doug - sorry for coming in late.
There are at least 5 ways to connect to a printer on a Mac. Mac-to-Mac sharing is the easiest because you get to use the printer's driver. The other methods rely on the Mac queue's standard functionality - incoming postscript is converted to code for the particular printer and sent to the printer by the driver.
Try this for troubleshooting:
Find the printer queue name by doing Get/Show Info on the printer in the Printer Setup list on the tangerine Mac.
On your computer, Add , select IP printer, then IPP. Enter the tangerine's IP address plus that queue name. Select generic postscript for driver.
Finish and try printing.

Happy Mac Day To Me

Happy Mac Day To Me!!!
Its been 4 years since I brought home my G3 Graphite iMac. How time flys. I remember needing a computer. I had lost my job, my wife started working from home, and I was attending college part time. This meant the Gateway was now hers for the purpose of work. I was thinking about another Gateway, maybe a Dell. I also remembered that Comp USA had this neat little section for Apple. This section stood out from the rows of generic pc’s. This section was in a word cool.
It was different. From the carpeted floor, to Nanosaur on the iMacs to the aura that one would feel a sense of quality. The look and feel of these computers was well, superior. “Just looking” I would say to the helpful sales people. These machines are gorgeous, but a little tough on the budget. But I liked the seamless appearance and interface of the Mac. Even if they were an all in one. The pcs were just clones of each other, take off the manufactures label and you couldn’t tell one from the other. Pcs had no where near the software or extras like on the Macs.
Then it happened Mac World 2002. The incredible g4 iMac was released to an unsuspecting world. I pounced...on the g3. It was seriously marked down. All that power, speed and all those applications. I just couldn’t resist.
On January 12th 2002 I brought home my graphite 40 gb, 256 mb 600 mhz iMac. And immediately panicked!!! What was I thinking? I didn’t know Apple! Certainly I didn’t know this OS X stuff! No applications from Windows would work with this this THING! Right? I had seven days to see if I liked this Apple iMac, if not it goes back in the box and I get a nice safe Windows PC running 2000 or better yet XP. Day 1, 2, 3 went by. The box only feet away. Back to Apple store I thought. Back to the Apple store. I’ll just pick it up and put it in the box. Truth be told it almost happened. Divine intervention I speculate.
Some where around day four, my wife, she’s pretty smart, told me 2 magic words. Learning Curve. The box slowly got pushed aside. My iMac started to become...cool again, I didn’t know it could do that, Wow that was easy! This iTunes is awesome (V. 2), This is really cool!!! Words of praise started to come from my work area in the recently refinished basement. The box disappeared. It got donated to give an old Tangerine iMac that was loaned to me safe passage to a school in need of good working computers. Day 7 came and went. I think I was playing with iTunes, Quicken 2002, Nanosaur, and of course I was online, at the same time! My new trusty friend, my iMac was here to stay!!! The fun had just begun.
I started to learn and LOVE OS X. I switched back and forth between OS 9 and OS X. I found that I liked the stability of OS X that much more. I do like OS 9. I started to learn then love the applications. Most of my associates degree assignments were done on my iMac. Thank God for spell check!!! My job search changed from knocking on doors and reading the paper to e-mailing resumes and internet searches. Macintosh became an integral part of my life. Even Charlie, my tabby cat is learning OS X. He has the file renaming down to a science. Chelsea, the kitten loves HP printers. Cats! Must be the whole feline theme.
I look back on these past four years as a wonderful period of my life. My iMac was and is a big part of that. My Mac and my Jeep pick up with plow stand out as the two best purchases I have ever made. It snows a lot in Ma. Since I bought my iMac an iBook found a home here last Christmas. For a birthday present an iPod Photo resides here. My darling wife who after 15 plus years of crashes, viruses, as well as hang ups, and blue death screens from Windows 3.1 to 2000, switched. November 1, 2005 her Mac Mini arrived. Two days later she, (had to go to work due to job change) was saying “What took me so long, this is great” and “I love my Mac!!!” Told you she’s smart. She’s spreading the word. The Gateway has since been put out to pasture. That, by the way arrived on a Halloween. What does that tell you. Scary!
Now, just after Mac World 2006 the future looks bright. Strong leadership, bold innovation, and a sense of optimism and excitement. So if their is anyone on the fence here is a little advice from a former procrastinator. The question isn’t whether to buy a Mac or not, but which Mac to buy. Go to an Apple store,Comp USA, or other authorized reseller. Talk to them, tell them your wants and needs. No pressure, just a pleasant experience to say the least. Buy what suits YOU. You will not go wrong. You will be very, very happy that a Mac calls your place home.
I'll post this in Tiger as well.
Thank you all at Apple and the discussion boards too!
God Bless,
Lee Janerico

Lee
It certainly took some time, but every day's a Happy Mac Day! I started using Apple with a strange Apple2 running DOS in 1980 something.. possibly before 85, but cannot stretch the neurones that far. Bought a Mac+ (512K ram on system 5... wow) then a SE30, Centris610 then went mad on a PM8500, PM9600 and now started collecting imacs and other strange things like Newton Message Pads that nobody wants to know. OS9 is a wonderful thing, Hypercard is magic, GUI fun, and OSX is all very well, but itfor me is not as exciting as firing up my old SE from 1989-90, running up OS6 and watching things happen on a paper white screen... yes, I AM WIERDperson, but I am exstatically happy with my Macs

Happy Mac Day To Me A Success Story.

Happy Mac Day To Me!!!
Its been 4 years since I brought home my G3 Graphite iMac. How time flys. I remember needing a computer. I had lost my job, my wife started working from home, and I was attending college part time. This meant the Gateway was now hers for the purpose of work. I was thinking about another Gateway, maybe a Dell. I also remembered that Comp USA had this neat little section for Apple. This section stood out from the rows of generic pc’s. This section was in a word cool.
It was different. From the carpeted floor, to Nanosaur on the iMacs to the aura that one would feel a sense of quality. The look and feel of these computers was well, superior. “Just looking” I would say to the helpful sales people. These machines are gorgeous, but a little tough on the budget. But I liked the seamless appearance and interface of the Mac. Even if they were an all in one. The pcs were just clones of each other, take off the manufactures label and you couldn’t tell one from the other. Pcs had no where near the software or extras like on the Macs.
Then it happened Mac World 2002. The incredible g4 iMac was released to an unsuspecting world. I pounced...on the g3. It was seriously marked down. All that power, speed and all those applications. I just couldn’t resist.
On January 12th 2002 I brought home my graphite 40 gb, 256 mb 600 mhz iMac. And immediately panicked!!! What was I thinking? I didn’t know Apple! Certainly I didn’t know this OS X stuff! No applications from Windows would work with this this THING! Right? I had seven days to see if I liked this Apple iMac, if not it goes back in the box and I get a nice safe Windows PC running 2000 or better yet XP. Day 1, 2, 3 went by. The box only feet away. Back to Apple store I thought. Back to the Apple store. I’ll just pick it up and put it in the box. Truth be told it almost happened. Divine intervention I speculate.
Some where around day four, my wife, she’s pretty smart, told me 2 magic words. Learning Curve. The box slowly got pushed aside. My iMac started to become...cool again, I didn’t know it could do that, Wow that was easy! This iTunes is awesome (V. 2), This is really cool!!! Words of praise started to come from my work area in the recently refinished basement. The box disappeared. It got donated to give an old Tangerine iMac that was loaned to me safe passage to a school in need of good working computers. Day 7 came and went. I think I was playing with iTunes, Quicken 2002, Nanosaur, and of course I was online, at the same time! My new trusty friend, my iMac was here to stay!!! The fun had just begun.
I started to learn and LOVE OS X. I switched back and forth between OS 9 and OS X. I found that I liked the stability of OS X that much more. I do like OS 9. I started to learn then love the applications. Most of my associates degree assignments were done on my iMac. Thank God for spell check!!! My job search changed from knocking on doors and reading the paper to e-mailing resumes and internet searches. Macintosh became an integral part of my life. Even Charlie, my tabby cat is learning OS X. He has the file renaming down to a science. Chelsea, the kitten loves HP printers. Cats! Must be the whole feline theme.
I look back on these past four years as a wonderful period of my life. My iMac was and is a big part of that. My Mac and my Jeep pick up with plow stand out as the two best purchases I have ever made. It snows a lot in Ma. Since I bought my iMac an iBook found a home here last Christmas. For a birthday present an iPod Photo resides here. My darling wife who after 15 plus years of crashes, viruses, as well as hang ups, and blue death screens from Windows 3.1 to 2000, switched. November 1, 2005 her Mac Mini arrived. Two days later she, (had to go to work due to job change) was saying “What took me so long, this is great” and “I love my Mac!!!” Told you she’s smart. She’s spreading the word. The Gateway has since been put out to pasture. That, by the way arrived on a Halloween. What does that tell you. Scary!
Now, just after Mac World 2006 the future looks bright. Strong leadership, bold innovation, and a sense of optimism and excitement. So if their is anyone on the fence here is a little advice from a former procrastinator. The question isn’t whether to buy a Mac or not, but which Mac to buy. Go to an Apple store,Comp USA, or other authorized reseller. Talk to them, tell them your wants and needs. No pressure, just a pleasant experience to say the least. Buy what suits YOU. You will not go wrong. You will be very, very happy that a Mac calls your place home.
Originally posted in the iMac g3 section but i wanted to share with potential switchers.
Thank you all at Apple and the discussion boards too!
God Bless,
Lee Janerico

Lee:
What a beautiful story! And how well you tell it!
In a sense your story is every mac user's story, only the names and details are different. We love our macs, even when they challenge us.
Thank you for reminding us of the satisfaction and thrill of owning a mac.
Good luck.
cornelius
Pismo400, 100 GB 5400 Toshiba internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS 10.4.3 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Beige G3 OS 8.6

What moden do I have?

I seem to have accidentally reset my modem selection. Can someone advise me as to what moden I have in my tangerine imac 333hz. Is it Apple Internal 56K Modem v34 or v90?
Thanks
Rob

If you are running 9.2 on your iMac, then your will not have the "More Info" box (having never used OS 9, I guess) as this is a "feature" of Mac OS X which opens an app called "System Profiler".
I can't find the specs of your modem in the AppleSpec database, or on EveryMac.com, where they only say 56.6k (internal). Because this iMac was shipping in 1999, I would say v.90, but I'm not sure so I'll try to check somewhere else.
Edit : I see you already have 10.3.8 on your Mini, so you must know about System Profiler and all.
Edit #2 : LowEndMac say the modem "supports v.90 standard". I guess that's what you wanted to know.

Print to Imagewriter II from Intel MacBook Pro, Quicken, Leopard OS 10.5

What will it take to print to an Imagewriter II dot-matrix printer from a 2007 MacBook Pro 2.2 (OS 10.5.2, Quicken 2007)?
I'd like to still use my pin-fed checks.
I'm trying to move my accounting and check printing from an old, but still workable, Mac SE/30 system (OS 7, Quicken 7). Ain't those old machines great!!!!!
Will I need a Print Driver?
How will I connect?
(I have lots of other older Macs around: Tangerine iMac, original PowerBook.
I have a LAN over a Belkin router.
Don't have a LocalTalk option card or a Farallon AppleTalk-over-Ethernet to Appletalk/LocalTalk converter, but maybe could get?)
Thanks for your input!
--PSMacintosh

I'm a bit confused here.
Let's see if I understand correctly.
Method One:
If I buy and install a USB-to-Serial Adapter and plug it into my MBP's USB port, then I can serial cable directly from the Imagewriter II to the MBP and print.
I have to load the drivers for the USB-to-Serial Adapter.
I have to load the foomatic and GPL Ghostwriter drivers to convert Quicken 2007's postscript print format to Imagewriter's format (appletalk? localtalk?).
I don't have to have an Appletalk/Localtalk card in the Imagewriter.
Method Two (install an Appletalk/Localtalk card in the Imagewriter, then connect somehow (via ethernet) to my network):
I tried to find the card on eBay, but couldn't find it with any search words that I used. What are the right words?
Do I understand correctly that I need:
a AppleTalk/LocalTalk option card that will install inside of the Imagewriter II?
will connect into a slot inside the Imagewriter II?
and will have an ethernet port on it?
Then I'll need to connect an ethernet cable from the card port to either my computer directly (disconnect its ethernet network cable and use its ethernet port) or connect to the network router via ethernet?
(I do have a 34 Express Card slot on the MBP, so maybe I could buy an Express Card that has an ethernet port and connect to the MBP, rather than the network router?)
ALTERNATIVE-- Method Three:
I do have an Original Powerbook (Family: M3553), running OS 9 and not having Quicken 2007 Mac, which has a Serial Port on it (I'm pretty sure that its printer port interface is serial) and is connected by ethernet to the network router.
So, if I serial cable from the Imagewriter to the Powerbook, turn on the PowerBook to connect to the network, then could I print to the Imagewriter from my MBPro?
I'd have to "see" the printer on my MBP. Or I'd have to drop the print file into the PowerBook's Drop Box and then print it from the PB.
But there's still a problem here because the GPL Ghostwriter from your reference only runs on OS 10s, and not OS 9s.
But maybe that's not a problem because I don't have to install it on the PowerBook with OS 9, but rather on the MBP.
So, if I install the foomatic and GPL Ghostwriter on the MBP, then it converts the print file (from postscript to appletalk??), then I send the print file to the PowerBook and then to the Imagewriter, I guess that should work?

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