[geeks] Advice on USB/Firewire PCI card

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:11:18AM -0400, Ido Dubrawsky wrote:
> I'm the last leg of putting together this FrankenMac to run Tiger.  I plan to 
> use a USB keyboard instead of ADB.  From what I understand Tiger requires a 
> firewire interface (preferably built-in on the motherboard...but as I under-
> stand it doesn't HAVE to be on the motherboard).  So I'm looking at getting
> either a Sonnet Tango card or a Macally USB/firewire card and I want to know
> what are some of the opinions on either one.  The Macally is cheaper than the
> Sonnet but I understand that the Tango card has better support...or am I wrong?

I have installed tiger on several Macs without USB or firewire.  See 
XPostfacto. All it needs is a G3 and 256m of RAM.

Geoff. 

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