333mhz Grape iMac G3!

[MacTCP]

Clicker

I just won a 333mhz Grape iMac G3 with original stuff for $96.01! I'll pick it up tomorrow. The price may be a little high, but I really wanted this. At the end there was even a bidding battle! I just narrowly won.

 

[iMac600]

Congrats, these really are nice machines and a lot of fun to use.

 

[LCGuy]

Very nice. I've got a Lime one, myself, i've been using it as my main Mac for the better part of 7 years. Still a great machine, just a little burdened by modern software, sadly.

 

[MacTCP]

I'll be keeping it on Mac OS 8.6 when I get it. I always liked that OS, even though I used it for only a few months, years ago.

 

[The Macster]

8.6? 8-o That's prehistoric! Why not try Tiger on there, it can easily handle it (with some extra memory of course) and in my opinion would be a lot more fun with it Or if you do want Classic, surely 9.2.2 is the logical choice? I've never really used 8.x OSes, despite my recent acquisition of a real copy of 8.5, as I don't have any 68ks that can take 8.1 and there aren't any Macs that can take 8.6 that can't take 9 so I don't see that you would ever use that one nowadays.

Looks a nice machine though, and it's great to get all the bits with it like that

 

[MacTCP]

I try to keep all my macs on different OSes to keep them unique. I chose 8.6 over 9.2.2 because 8.6 is lighter, and 9.2.2 didn't add any features I use. I can't wait to see the About the Mac OS Credits easter egg again after so many years.

 

[MacMan]

... I can't wait to see the About the Mac OS Credits easter egg again after so many years.

That is quite cool - I was just looking at that on my 3400c with 8.5.

 

[funkytoad]

That is awesome

 

[MacTCP]

I just bought a clouds mouse pad from Staples so it will look as outdated as possible.

I hope the guy will let me pick up the iMac soon.

 

[Quadraman]

I try to keep all my macs on different OSes to keep them unique. I chose 8.6 over 9.2.2 because 8.6 is lighter, and 9.2.2 didn't add any features I use. I can't wait to see the About the Mac OS Credits easter egg again after so many years.

9.2.2 is actually very fast in comparison to 9.0-9.1. There really isn't much reason to use 8.6 over 9.2.2 if speed is your only concern and you get all the newer features of Mac OS 9.

 

[MacTCP]

I don't have another license of 9 either.

But I see no benefit in 9 for me, so why use it on this? IMHO

I also just miss the OS 8 days. :-/

I just spent an hour rearranging my space to fit the iMac. I hope I get to pick it up sometime.

 

[MacTCP]

I guess I won't be getting it today.

 

[MacTCP]

I'm getting it tomorrow.

 

[chris]

Where do you live that they're so expensive? BINs tend to run between 60 and 80 USD...Including shipping. The books and disks are cool but I wouldn't bump the price 20-40 for them...

 

[MacTCP]

I live 15 miles away from the item location. Ironically, I bought a Macintosh Server G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) local pickup off of eBay for only $68.75 a few months ago.

The one other bidder was bidding very high on the iMac (the starting bid was $9.99), and I was serious about winning the mac. I knew that I wouldn't see a tray-loader with original stuff for a long time. I had wanted one just like that for about a year. Anyhow, it's worth it for me! [] ]'>

 

[macintoshman]

Very nice. I have a bondi and he HD is slowwwwwwww. I suggest a new HD for it and more RAM and it will be a nice OS X machine.

 

[bluekatt]

Very nice. I have a bondi and he HD is slowwwwwwww. I suggest a new HD for it and more RAM and it will be a nice OS X machine.

he doesnt want an os X machine he wants a 8.6 machine he said that in the thread

 

[MacTCP]

I got the iMac! I guess they weren't very familiar with macs, because everything is loose in the root of the hard drive. Also, the trash contains pictures of their baby taking a bath, which they probably wanted to delete before selling. (The seller I bought this mac from had it for three days before selling it on eBay, so it wasn't him) I don't think they knew how to empty the trash…

Anyway, I'll be doing a complete restore, so it will be like a factory-fresh iMac.

EDIT: Judging by the documents contained on the HD, this is from a senior citizen. In a document, it says "I am a senior citizen" somewhere in it. The many card games would help create this conclusion as well. Also, these documents weren't modified since 2000. Think I should keep them?

 

[MacTCP]

I'm restoring the iMac right now! I did keep the documents and applications. I really like this iMac. It feels like buying one new in 1998.