Suggested uses for iBook G3/500 with broken screen?

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 5:41 pm

I broke the screen on my iBook and was going to sell it for parts on eBay. It still has a new batter and I recently replaced the keyboard as well. Come to think of it I put in a 40GB hard drive in it which is bigger than the one in my new iBook G4 at 30GB. I don't know how I'd switch them out easily and move my stuff from my G4 ibook.

Any way, one idea I had was that I have about four different printers and I thought perhaps I could get some sort of shelves and stack a printer on each shelf vertically with my iBook G3 on top and simply being a wireless print server. I could confiigure it using a remote access program or temporarily hooking it up to an external monitor. Bottom line... I just wonder what else I could do with this poor ailing iBook to keep it useful. I'm assuming virtual instruments are sort of dicey on a G3/500 otherwise I could do the "Wormhole" thing with it I guess.

Suggestions?

zerosin · Post by **zerosin** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:13 pm

Sorry man. I see so many PBs come into my shop like that. Ever see a Ti book go to plad?

How about reason. I have it running on a Beige G3 tower with a G4 500 upgrade and it runs great. It ran pretty good too with the stock G3 333 CPU too. Does the external video out work? It should have S-video out, hook it up to a TV and use a MIDI video dj program for live gigs.

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:46 pm

zerosin wrote:Sorry man. I see so many PBs come into my shop like that. Ever see a Ti book go to plad?

How about reason. I have it running on a Beige G3 tower with a G4 500 upgrade and it runs great. It ran pretty good too with the stock G3 333 CPU too. Does the external video out work? It should have S-video out, hook it up to a TV and use a MIDI video dj program for live gigs.

Cool idea. Yeah the external video works fine. I don't think it has S-video? Maybe. I know I have the AV cable that allows it to send an NTSC composite signal and I've used a program called G-Force to send psychadelic type stuff to the TV screens in bars during my gigs. I hate to throw out an otherwise good computer. Heck... it could be nothing but a glorified FAX machine and I'd get *something* out of it.

What do you think of the print server idea?

zerosin · Post by **zerosin** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:56 pm

It could work. Under OS 9 at least, I've found USB printer sharing to be hit or miss. I haven't tried it in OS X yet since most printers I sell are 10/100 ready. You could also slap a FireWire HD onto it and make it a backup server.

tdblanchard · Post by **tdblanchard** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:49 am

you could always just start it up as an external FW drive.
hold down the "t" whil booting to have it start up as one. then you can gett everything to another machine that way.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:23 am

I use Printer Sharing with my PBG4 and OSX.3 and it works great with my Epson R200 USB printer. I have two other Macs on my network and they both print to the USB via Printer Sharing without problems.

You could use your PB as a shared disk at the same time.

What's "the wormhole thing?"