No OS war here, but there's no guarantee that however this particular iMac's behavior is, it may take some creativity to get it back to operable again without a retail version of OS 9 or an ebay buy of the original restore cdrom for that particular model of iMac ? Dropping a cdrom or dvd in with a PPC Linux distro, maybe even a live cd version, allows to mount the drive for troubleshooting (using Linux to fix Windows/OS *), even install it and be up and running with a more modern operating system that still doesn't crush the legacy hardware. I've got an old Dell notebook with a blazing 733 Mhz P3, 256 MB PC133, whopping 4 MB of video and 15 GB hdd, that runs Ubuntu Studio 8.04 and doesn't load any more than 160 MB of the 256. I can still web surf and do light office documents and spreadsheets with it. The web surfing really isn't that bad an experience that it isn't any appreciably worse than the minimum requirement OS X or Windows XP system. But it used to be Windows 2000 notebook. With no way to boot from anything but a proprietary floppy/cdrom from Dell and a PXE network boot via an internet connection, the only OS I can get on this Dell is Linux. Anyway, just want to see perfectly good computer hardware living out it's retirement years happily.
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"BAD penquin! BAD! Down boy! :tongue:"
Awwwww, come on now, let the penguin have it's abandoned/orphaned computer hardware.