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After 5 years of searching...

68kPlus

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I'm out for most of the day, but once I get home I'll do another post about these beauties. The blue one (Blueberry or Indigo) apparently works, and the graphite has power button issues but is functional.
 

3lectr1cPPC

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Sweet! I had also been wanting a G3 iMac for a long while (since...2017??) until I got my first one sometime in late 2020-early 2021. Be warned, it's very common to see these develop analog board issues. I've got some recapping to do with my blueberry at least, and to do so you have to get the front bezel off which is near impossible to do without it breaking. So here's hoping you avoid all that. The speakers also like to go bad, as do the belts on the optical drive, causing the eject motor to not work well. These can all be fixed with a bit of work though.

Your units look great. Hardly any yellowing on the inner bezels, which is common. Make sure to pull those PRAM batteries!
 

Juror22

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Congratulations on your acquisitions! They look great and you should still be able to start the graphite one from the keyboard, even if the power button is flakey. At least until you can sort it out.
 

LaPorta

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My gray iMac DV SE is one of my favorites. I've had it since it was new in 2000. I'm just sorry that I don't really have anywhere to use it right now, so it is sitting it out in its box. Very fun machines!
 

68kPlus

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Update:
Both are fully functional with two new (old) IDE HDDs. Both are formatted to 128GB and running OS 9.1. One is 600MHz (Graphite) and the other 500MHz (Indigo). The Indigo has 192MB RAM and the Graphite 384MB.
Love these two!
 
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