XBHS1997's finds, saves and conquests

[tanaquil]

(Weirdly, though, to my eyes in the picture you linked, Blueberry looks much darker than Bondi. My family tease me all the time because I can't tell the difference between blue, teal and green.)

 

[CC_333]

Tanaquil: Do you have tendencies toward color blindness in your family? I know someone who is completely color blind, and he can only discern primary colors (bright red, for instance) accurately.

However, I'd imagine it could be somewhat difficult, if not impossible, to tell apart the Bondi blue and Blueberry iMacs if the lighting is a certain way (many photographs, for example, don't look quite right; Bondi looks quite a bit darker than Blueberry in person I've found).

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[XBHS1997]

Yeah I understand that sometimes it's maybe not so easy to make the difference...

 

[XBHS1997]

I'm hoping to get some pictures up of my rapidly growing collection sometime soon.

Please do so

 

[tanaquil]

Tanaquil: Do you have tendencies toward color blindness in your family? I know someone who is completely color blind, and he can only discern primary colors (bright red, for instance) accurately.

Haha, not that I know of, but I certainly seem to have trouble with light blue and teal. (I can definitely tell the difference with lime.)

I will test my ambiguous-blues and report back!

 

[tanaquil]

I manage to fire up a few more machines and discovered the following. (It appears the guy who sold them to me was nearly as clueless and color blind as I am... not that I'm complaining.)

It turns out that I don't have a bondi blue, but I do have a blueberry, a grape and an indigo. (I thought the grape was blueberry and the blueberry was bondi... no wonder that "blueberry" looked so purple to me!) I'm actually quite pleased about this, because while having an original bondi would be nice, I want a complete set of fruit colors more. Now I'm only missing strawberry.

I have matching keyboards and mice for blueberry, grape, lime and tangerine. I also have an extra blueberry mouse/keyboard set and a random grape keyboard/blueberry mouse set. Like I said, I'm pretty sure the guy who sold them to me was also very confused.

I originally thought I was missing "matching" accessories for the ruby, but now I realize that the indigo and the ruby both would have shipped with the white keyboards and mice, so I'll have to pick up a couple sets of those sometime if I really care about authentic period accessories.

So far:

400 Mhz Indigo (slot)

400 Mhz Ruby (slot)

266 Mhz grape (tray)

350 Mhz blueberry (slot)

Haven't fired up the lime and the tangerine yet, but since they are tray-loading, I'm going to guess they are same generation as the tray loading grape, so probably 266. They can only be 266 or 333 Mhz.

Sorry for semi-hijacking this thread - I really should move this into a thread of my own (no good pictures yet). But since the question was asked, I figured I'd answer it.

XBHS1997, I'm looking forward to more pictures of your collection in the future.

(ETA: Thanks very much for the link to the keyboard video - I was able to confirm from that that both of my blueberry keyboards are in fact blueberry and not bondi, since they have 1999 copyright marks.)

 

[XBHS1997]

No problem, it's always nice to see other people collecting these.

I'll try to update this post this week. Also made a quite strange find last Saturday.

 

[ArmorAlley]

Hey dude!

I have something for you — a genuine (or, at least, it looks genuine) Mac Portable carrying bag from Apple. It needs a bit of work and cleaning, but it should complement your Mac Portable nicely.

How is university?

All the best,

aa.