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Sorry if that was a dumb reply. But somebody should make parts for vintage Macs even "modern" enough like the iMac G3, because the Apple inventories are long gone for computers like the iMac G3 and there are not too many NOS parts out there.

Why not just buy a pair of headphones and plug them into the headphone jack or buy some cheap computer speakers to replace them with? You just would have to plug them into the audio out jack and you'd be up and running.

Totally possible, but slow. When I interned at the local newspaper office where I wrote articles on a Mac mini powered by a G4 processor (it was the original MacMini from 2005.) While it was extremely slow (although many times faster than a similarly aged IBM desktop model running Windows XP) it...

Why would someone buy a $1,000-$3,000 computer and never use it and leave it in it's box for like 20 years? That has always amazed me....

Do you have a BatteriesPlus or a similar battery store near you? If so, they may be the best option for changing the cells in the battery as they know how to do it properly.

But it isn't like the world is going to explode or something in 2038, like previously thought in 2000, right? I've got extreme thanatophobia, so I'm kind of lucky that I was just an infant during the Y2K chaos, and I wasn't alive through the Cold War.

Well, weren't the 68k Macs not Y2K compliant anyways? So wouldn't it just reset to 1958 or something like that? But it isn't like the world is going to explode or something in 2038, like previously thought in 2000?

So nothing will happen in 2037 or 2048?

Elfen, my question is this about Y2K that I never understood: How could the clock resetting from 1999 to 1900 set off missiles? And how did everyone feel when they woke up on January 1, 2000? I know there is some Y2K-esque thing that is supposed to happen in 2037 or 2038 with modern computers...

I thought 140 too, but the video's resolution is so low that I can't really tell.

https://youtu.be/nxpo9wObm20?t=16m7s My favorite Apple promotional video. ;)

Well, I'm actually trying to figure it out via video. The quality of the video is low (dubbed from VHS) and I can't really make out the badge or any major features, except that the speaker grill is short. I'll get a screen grab tomorrow.

How can you tell a PowerBook 140 from the PowerBook 170s/etc. by looking at it (excluding the badge.) Did they use different cases? So far I've been telling 140s apart from 170s by looking at the speaker grill, until I learned that they used the same short speaker grill.

Wow, that's a lot of compact Macs! Where in Ireland do you live?

Yes, unity. But then again, most people on eBay and Craigslist who don't know a whole lot about Macintoshes are very quick to call something a prototype/developer unit.

Love how they think it's a developer/prototype unit, then state this (which proves it isn't a prototype): Plus, it's a 512k - not as special as the 128k, which isn't even that special unless it is the Twiggy Mac or an early production unit, or a prototype.

Have you checked for a corroded battery? Perhaps capacitors? Personally I'd narrow it down those two issues first...

The Apple ][ should be able to display color, or at least that is what I thought. (That was why they made the Apple "colorful.")

Oh, okay. That is good that the cooler radio is working! As for the HP iMac G3, I'm sorry - I just didn't understand what it said on the top. I can't read the language printed on it (French?) Not related- but do you live in France?

And also, there is the Mac OS watch that people will pay $3,000 for. I actually prefer the lava lamp clock and the wall clock. And why does the iMac G3 desk thing(y) have the HP logo on it? How did I just find this thread? It looks like it has been going for a while.