Excellent! Thanks much for the reply.Absolutely.
You just need PCI video cards that have DVI output. You're going to need the A1006 though for each Cinema Display.
I have three Cinema Displays, but six monitors. All six were once driven by my G4. But if I'd have had three more Cinema Displays those would have worked too using the A1006 (I have three of them already).
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All I can say to those pics is WOW! How many do you have in use? Do you have plans for the others?
That's the problem. I actually have way more than what you see pictured. And I have had them for many years. Over the years, I've cleaned a few up and sold them. I made fish tanks out of a couple of them. An iMac G4 sits in my office at work as a digital picture frame. I had hoped that my daughter would show an interest in vintage Macs and maybe clean up a few for sale but her interests lie in other things. My biggest problem is not having time when I'm at home.
I'm thinking about disassembling the iMac G-3's and putting them on eBay selling just the cases. Cuts down on shipping costs.
I always hate to hear of a perfectly functional computer (especially such beautiful ones!) being gutted, but I also totally understand the need to reduce the footprint, and the difficulty in selling such heavy items.
With as many eMacs as you have, and if you felt the need, you could probably donate an entire computer lab to a local school. Sadly though (in my experience at least), the IT folks at schools often don't understand that a computer's usability, even for current tasks, is not directly determined by the year it was produced.
Most of my eMacs came from schools. The truth is that eMacs and really any PowerPC Macs are beyond their useful lives when it comes to schools. They aren't going to be able to find and purchase software for them. Schools are now using ChromeBooks and iPads.
In my experience, (as someone who graduated high school in 2012, and whose wife still works in a school), the largest part of what schools use is Microsoft Word and a web browser, both of which are easily available on PowerPC. In my county, they have just rolled out iPads to all students, so I agree that most traditional "computer-lab" usage is unwarranted. However, in the large majority of WV, budget cuts prevent many tech upgrades so "older" desktops and laptops are very much the norm. (When I graduated in 2012, my high school was still had several Windows XP machines in use)
However, as a counter-point, IMO, the introduction of iPads into the school environment severely reduces the system requirements for a computer lab. Having an iPad with them would allow students to do research on the iPad while typing a paper on an eMac (or even much older hardware). Nobody that I know wants to type a research paper on a touch screen.
My middle school which i just finished doing my time there has crazy core i5 workstations from hp and lenovo. But i hear they are switching to the little boxes without hdds from hp (screw hp and lenovo i like dell and apple 
. im using a core 2 duo dell to type this. Sorry for going to off topic i also found three ancient p3 machines in their dumpsters one year
. im using a core 2 duo dell to type this. Sorry for going to off topic i also found three ancient p3 machines in their dumpsters one yearI'm surprised to hear of so many computers being placed on the curb or tossed into dumpsters. I would have thought this would have to be e-wasted, especially from a school.My middle school which i just finished doing my time there has crazy core i5 workstations from hp and lenovo. But i hear they are switching to the little boxes without hdds from hp (screw hp and lenovo i like dell and apple
Can't speak for other locations, but sadly, in my area, there are very few resources to recycle electronics. Beginning in 2011, it became illegal in WV to throw away things like computers and televisions. That law was repealed in 2016, so sadly I'm sure tons of them are making their way into our landfills now. The main reason they ended up repealing the law though, was due to the large spike in illegal trash dumps of these items.
Interesting there are so few places to e-waste electronics in your area. With so much emphasis on being green these days I would have thought e-waste locations would be plentiful.
e-cycling tends to be either municipal (city) supported or run by small, regionally-operated businesses. There seems to be very few "chains" offering these services.
One of the major issues is that while there is a strong desire to e-cycle, sufficient e-waste has to be present to justify the expense of the operation. So, if it's municipal supported that means large cities. If it's a small, regional business it still means large cities because rural and towns don't generate enough to justify the expense.
Even in Phoenix where I live, a city of 1.6 million people, there are only a few e-cyclers. That means driving for a lot of people. I tend to hold on to stuff not only because I am a packrat but getting to the place where I can get rid of it is a 20-30 minute trip. It's inconvenient and doing this is going to require getting time off work because the places in my area aren't open on the weekends.
might i also add that for some reason they had ram and cpu taken out but i found 2 hdds and a dedicated 16mb vram graphics card
If you decide to do that, please shoot me a list of colors before you disassemble them.
I don't mind to pay for the computer+shipping if it's a color I don't have.
Libraries. (Speaking as a librarian currently doing this.). They make fabulous catalogue computer terminals and Tiger has all the accessibility features baked in for people with visual/hearing impairment. Set up an account with parental controls, whitelist only the library website, TenFour Fox Box to the webpage with your catalogue, and you’re done. I’m pretty sure you can just plug n play a roller ball attachment if necessary too. (Haven’t tried it, would love one. Need to find one, then get a grant to afford it.)
(They’re on my desk upstairs - I’m having trouble with the iMac g4, and I want to polish the 1.33ghz iBook before I put it out. And I’ll put a printout of their pages from MOMA so people know what they are.)
Ask your local libraries what they think. We’re perennially strapped for cash, and if you took one in and showed them what it could do, I think it would be considered. I’m currently using a Raspberry Pi - you don’t need something with grunt to run just the catalogue. Anything with any kind of grunt I need as a public access terminal.
I know that I have green and blue. I will have to go out and look next time I'm where they are stored.
Counties are subdivisions of states in the USA so they aren't wrong.
That's a guy thing.
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Oh, that's right. I misread as 'countries'.
There's a single letter difference, so the two can very easily be confused when skimmed over. Apologies.
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For the record…Phoenix is in Maricopa County.
The 5th largest county in the USA. Useless trivia stuff.
according to some website i checked, the biggest county in my state is idaho county (makes sense for the name of the county right?)