Geez...I could've hooked you up with a few eMacs a week ago...we were just throwing 80 of them out at work!
Curses, foiled again. Well, as it happens I got the eMac, which turned out to be a 1.25Ghz one with 256MB of memory and Panther. There was no password and no recovery disks, so I talked the shop into giving it me for £40. I got it back home and eventually managed to get past the password... shortly afterwards I spotted the password was written on the underside of the keyboard!
It's working okay - I've got a 6 month guarantee apparently - and I plan on upgrading the memory to 2GB pretty soon. However, I've still got a few issues - help would be appreciated.
1) Safari won't work - the icon bounces and won't open. The 'get info' function indicates it's version 2, so I gather the problem is that Panther - the OS that's on the E-Mac - doesn't support that. But 1.3 isn't downloadable, only the patches are. Is there any way of getting 1.3 back on their without doing a system restore? I'm using Camino for now but I'd prefer the highest version of Safari I can get, so not 1.2 either.
2) How do I figure out which restore discs I need? There seem to be a fair few on E-Bay, but I'm wary of getting the wrong ones. I could contact Apple but I suspect they don't keep discs that old around.
3) Is there any point upgrading to Leopard, once I've increased the memory? It might give me access to slightly newer software but will it be significantly slower?
4) Are software updates still online for OS X 10.3? If I do buy a set of recovery disks, and the updates aren't available, I'd be taking a step back from 10.3.9 which is where I am now.
