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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Franklin Gothic Medium'">Hi Izzy,</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Franklin Gothic Medium'">Unfortunately, Sugar (SoaS) won't run on Power PC Macs (yet... anyone want to volunteer for a project?).</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Franklin Gothic Medium'">I did find some info on the machines your friend has...</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Franklin Gothic Medium'">Specs:</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Franklin Gothic Medium'">A list of things a G3 ibook Clamshell owner still does with theirs:</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Franklin Gothic Medium'">Here someone is selling documentation and disks for an older version of iMovie that will run on the machine:</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ibook-Clamshell-Original-Disks-manual-box-cable-/220604117159#ht_500wt_1051ns.com/tech/ibook.html">http://cgi.ebay.com/ibook-Clamshell-Original-Disks-manual-box-cable-/220604117159#ht_500wt_1051</a></font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Franklin Gothic Medium'"><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Franklin Gothic Medium'">I would suggest hunting around for older software compatible with OS 8 and OS 9. There were a lot of great programs that would run on these. Maybe some people on this list have some laying around their house that they would be willing to part with. I gave all mine away when I gave away my "Yosemite" G3 to an out of work engineer and his daughter. </font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Franklin Gothic Medium'">Does anyone else have any ideas? Of course, if your friend has internet available for his project, there are some internet based educational sites that might work. I'd have to hunt for the links.</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p><br>> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 06:35:24 -0700<br>> From: israel@ilopez.com<br>> To: olpc-socal@lists.laptop.org<br>> Subject: [Olpc-socal] Apple iBooks Clamshell<br>> <br>> Hey All,<br>> <br>> Does anyone know what can be done with the<br>> <br>> M7707LL/A Apple iBook G3 Clamshell M2453<br>> <br>> Laptop? I have a friend who landed himself in Africa and has a bunch<br>> of them laying around, and wants to try to find a good use for them.<br>> Will Sugar Run on them, whats the latest PPC distro that will run well<br>> on that hardware?<br>> <br>> -Izzy<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OLPC-SoCal mailing list<br>> OLPC-SoCal@lists.laptop.org<br>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-socal<br> </body>
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