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Go on the phone! It's folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab.

I'm Dave Hamilton here from Durham, New Hampshire.

On the other end of the Skypeline is...

John F Braun in Fairfield, Connecticut.

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Should we just dive right in with that, John, and go to go to Rob?

I think so.

Having some technical issues, to keep talking. Okay, all right. Now you now you sound no you're so good now okay I'm gonna go to Rob and Rob says

my power Mac G4 the old 867 megahertz quicksilver from January 2000,

has some Apple Pro speakers, the spherical Perspex enclosures.

They still work just fine,

and I'm about to retire the G4

in favor of a new Mac mini.

Now, the speakers plug into the G4

using an Apple-specific speaker jack.

The plug on the end of the speaker cable

looks a lot like a standard 1-eighth inch 3-millimeter

stereo plug much like the one on stereo earphones and the like, a lot like it except smaller, more like 2 millimeters

in diameter and a bit shorter.

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