Purple Haze

[TheNeil]

After another less than rivetting afternoon in the office I was browsing eBay and came across a purple slot-loading 400MHz G3 iMac with 192Mb 10GB HD for...£19!!!!!

All it needs is an OS re-install and I think even a klutz like me can manage that

 

[Bunsen]

Not bad at all - local or +shipping?

 

[MacMan]

Cool! I've got the Indigo version, (basically the same except the colour), and it works very well with 10.4.

Not to put down your bargain, but I though I'd just mention it: I was at a live auction yesterday and there was a graphite iMac G3 there, without any peripherals - just the computer. I was too late to bid on it but apparantly it sold for £7! If only I had been there earlier...

 

[TheNeil]

Sadly it's '+shipping' but as that's only £14 then I still don't think it was a bad price

I even managed to sweet talk my other half by saying that it was for her and that I'd name it after her and that it would be hers to treasure forever. So help me God I will convert her to 'the Apple way'...and then she'll let me buy that Intel Mac rather than have me upgrade my Wintel box

 

[Dan 7.1]

but if you do that she might want a purple intel mac. going to have to get creative on that front.

 

[Patrickool93]

http://www.colorwarepc.com/products/iMac_Flash_Page.aspx?configid=1084

 

[MacMan]

Buying Macs as presents for other halfs is a good tactic because ultimately they will upgrade and give you back the old Mac.

£33 overall is a good bargain for a 400MHz iMac!

 

[Bunsen]

Buying Macs as presents for other halfs is a good tactic because ultimately they will upgrade and give you back the old Mac.

You evil evil little MacMan } } }

 

[TheNeil]

Buying Macs as presents for other halfs is a good tactic because ultimately they will upgrade and give you back the old Mac.

You evil evil little MacMan } } }

Evil? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me }

Sadly she spotted that I'd bought it for her (I wanted it to be a surprise) but she understands that this is part of my collection and that she's only 'looking after it'...yeah right

Then, if she decides to upgrade in the future, I'll no doubt get my grubby little hands on whatever she upgrades to as well. Now that's evil

 

[Quadraman]

Cool! I've got the Indigo version, (basically the same except the colour), and it works very well with 10.4.
Not to put down your bargain, but I though I'd just mention it: I was at a live auction yesterday and there was a graphite iMac G3 there, without any peripherals - just the computer. I was too late to bid on it but apparantly it sold for £7! If only I had been there earlier...

I got a 700mhz Snow recently on Freecycle. }

 

[TheNeil]

Woohoo. My iMac turned up but, thanks to the wonderful of eBay, it had actually been described wrong. Instead of a 400Mhz machine with 10Gb HD and 192Mb RAM, I actually ended up with a 500MHz machine with 20Gb HD and 256Mb RAM

The guy selling it obviously didn't know what he was doing as it was sold as 'spares/repair' when all it needed was a system extension taking off to get it to boot to OS 9

 

[MacMan]

Brilliant, it's always good when mistakes like that happen in your favour!

 

[didius]

Such mistakes are hilarous.

Like this one (in belgium):

Here

Probably no system installed. [] ]'>

To bad its a stinky Performa 5200

 

[MacTCP]

I had a 500mhz Indigo iMac. It had a motherboard failure.