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I was offered a very lucrative new business last week (for me that is although I consulted on a couple over the years) that I've been wanting to do for 20 years. I did some calculations on a napkin and it looks doable. Lots of risk so now that I might be doing something else, maybe somebody will take my #1 spot as the guy that gets things done, then you'll be able to break 100. Good news all around.

Hey! I'm glad for you. . . I hope it isn't Bridge leases. . . In Brooklyn. Grin.

I hope you got a good price for me. . . But I just checked my soul and it's still here. . . although the IRS has been trying to get a lien on it for some time. And, no, I haven't ". . .sold my soul to the company store!"

Now about your Mac. It will run OSX.

Unfortunately, that's an iMac G4 Processor PowerMac, (no Intel processor) and depending on which model you have, it might be able to run OSX.5.8 Leopard, but most of those G4s could only be upgraded to OSX.4.11 Tiger. Those G4s with a 1.0 GHz or a 1.25 GHz PowerPC processor can be upgraded to OSX.5.8 Leopard. They can also run Apple MacOS 9.2.2 via the software Rosetta app.

The 700 MHz and 800 MHz earlier models which only supported OSX Tiger, had a maximum RAM of 1GB. They were introduced in 2002 and discontinued in 2003' in favor of the 1.0 and 1.25 GHz with Max 2GB capacity, which were in-turn, discontinued July 1, 2004. Ten years ago.

We used to use 10 of these in the dental office I manage for one my clients as workstations. When they were retired in favor of Intel iMacs, the office donated them to my food bank where, as far as I know since I still get questions occasionally about the database I created for them, they are still being used.

I was just reading about a browser for OSX.5 Leopard PowerMacs that has modern HTML5 drivers in it that's keeping some of these antiques still operating safely on the Internet. Here ya go! PowerPC Macs most definitely still have game

Looks like it won't work with Tiger, too bad, but yours is one that'll take Leopard, I think I might be able to scare up a Leopard install disk.

Hey! I'm glad for you. . . I hope it isn't Bridge leases. . . In Brooklyn. Grin.

I'm not that stupid, we buy them outright!

I was afraid you were going to say what you said. I didn't have time to even hook it up or look it up but I had a PPC Mac before, it ran whatever the OS was before X but it would never install any version of OS/X that I had access too even though the guy that gave me the disks said it ran on his what he said was identical machine before he upgraded to some badboy version of the notebook Mac. And, these were the older version of X, he'd upgraded to the latest already so I didn't what the problem was. I said I'd buy his old one since it ran O/S X but he'd gotten rid of it in an e waste day at his work. Speaking of e-waste, I was at one of those places and in the 80s I would have killed to get my hands on that hardware, now it's just so much junk, sad but at least it (I assume) isn't going to a landfill.

But if you says it'll run O/S X.4.11 Tiger, then that's what I'll try. The one I had before was the tower version of those colored all in one Macs so it was kind of funky but it was well made inside. It worked, it ran well and hooked right up to the network and DHCPd it's way into talking. It even ran Linux which while I like Linux, I didn't want to waste a Mac running something I could do on a 100 different clones.

I might have to take you up on that offer of the disk, it isn't installed somewhere else is it because , all joking aside, I don't really like software piracy since it's stealing no matter how you phrase it and it raises prices for the rest of us.

Thanks for the offer on the disk. Maybe I'll get to be the annoying relative who screws up his computer and expects free at my door service.