My old MDD bit the dust with multiple issues--first the onboard sound failed, then both the 33 and 66 IDE ports failed, leaving me with just the 100. Then the fans failed, replaced those, and evidently did not cool the machine enough-leaving it cold as a body buried last century.
Saw this less powerful MDD on Craigslist and grabbed it (the old one was a dual 1.25. this is a single 1Ghz)--$20. Seller was less than a mile from me.
Spent the last two days getting 10.4.11 and 9.2.2 installed, then copying over all the music (107.52 GB) and video (344 GB) and documents (5 GB) onto my 1 TB SATA connected to a Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card.
All this has taken two days (I have ADHD and it was not exactly top priority for me) but now I can celebrate all the apps are installed and the media added to iTunes (yeah, I know there are others, but iTunes works for me) on both 10.4.11 and 9.2.2 (two seperate partitions with the Media partition).
So I can now say "whew" and casually install Games when I play them. Now maybe I can move this to my office now, and get my dining room cleared. I know my husband Jason would love it if I did---then the ethernet cable is not stretched down the hallway and across the living room (the switch is in the office). . .
The next project is taking my eMac and doing the same thing to it! But I will have to wait a couple days to do that--since Jason has the next two days off, I try to make him the center of my attention.