iMac Orange

[superpantoufle]

/me

I had a christmas lunch at my parent's yesterday. They kindly asked me if I was interested in keeping their old iMac (rev. B orange), long retired from duty and waiting in the attic. It never was "my" computer since I left short after they bought it in '98 and I already had my own Mac for a long time, but even though, I was happy to see that this old friend I often troubleshooted back then was still alive.

It came with orange keyboard and mouse, in pristine state, and with the original CD's, case and all.

It has the stock 6 Gb hard drive and 160 Mb of Ram (I remember when they asked me to buy and install the 128 Mb upgrade, by the way). I like to put my collection machines in their original setup when possible, so I partitioned the drive and reinstalled the original System 8.5.1 and bundled software from CD's, and put in a Mac OS X 10.2 on the other partition.

It goes along great with my orange Clamshell iBook on my desk! ;D

 

[QuadSix50]

Very nice! Seems like it made a very formidable Christmas present.

 

[MacDan]

That is so cool!!! You get to keep an old friend whom you've had good times with.

 

[Sosai X]

What's the processor speed? I have a 333 Mhz processor that came out of my rev. b Bondi that you can have for free, if you need it. Will give you a bit more zip!

 

[superpantoufle]

What's the processor speed? I have a 333 Mhz processor that came out of my rev. b Bondi that you can have for free, if you need it. Will give you a bit more zip!

Thanks for the offer!

Actually it's a 266MHz, so it certainly would benefit from the "zip". But I have to confess I'm the kind of Mac collector who doesn't use his conquests on a regular basis. I fire them up once in a while to play some game or have fun with them, but I tend to prefer having them in their original "out of the box" configuration when possible. But thanks anyway!

 

[slimac55]

Nice. There's something about the iMac design that I like. Though I like the slot loaders better than the tray loaders, but tray loaders are still good.

 

[jkoci]

Nice. I just picked up one of these myself. Mine is grape.

 

[MrMacPlus]

After using an iMac G3 as my main machine from Summer 2007 to Summer 2008 I can no longer look at them with the same affection as the rest of you. For all intents & purposes I'd find it fun to tie mine to the back of a car and see what happens.

edit: never ever seen that written out, go figure

 

[Christopher]

I always found using the colored iMac's a joy because of their fun colors. Working on them? Slightly different story.

 

[Bunsen]

Intents -and- purposes.