Mac OS 9 Lives
General => Community Marketplace => Topic started by: Mardeec on February 12, 2018, 03:14:59 PM
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I picked up an eMac for next to nothing, in very nice shape except for the power button, which is beyond repair. I can power it on by shorting two contacts in the connector with a razor blade, which was great fun at first, but not a good long term solution. I realize I could use other switches, but the case is in beautiful shape, so I'd like to keep it original.
I understand all eMac models used the same switch. If you have one laying around, please let me know.
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Finally found one. Many of the online Mac parts stores showed eMac power buttons on their websites, but only TechParts Warehouse (http://www.techpartswarehouse.com) had one in stock.
Good price (around $5 plus shipping), go it installed, and the eMac is happily running 10.5.8. As I understand it, this model with the Superdrive can't boot OS9, so I think it will remain the "modern" Mac.
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Have you looked around this site to see if we have support for it yet? We can boot some(all?) of the unsupported eMacs, but I was not involved with that project and can't tell you which ones.
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Daniel, thanks for the tip. I did start to read about unsupported Macs, and it seems like *maybe* OS 9 could be installed on this eMac (1 GHz w/superdrive), but it will be a big experiment. I have an iMac G3, iMac G4, Quicksilver, and 2 MDDs that I want get running on OS9, and that's proving to be enough a challenge. For now, the eMac is complete and working, so I'll hold off on trying to install OS9, at least for now.
Marty