Free Grape iMac

[jkoci]

A local pickup from Freecycle. Comes with an matching Epson printer. No keyboard or mouse though. Bad hard drive. I assume either a 266mhz or 333mhz and maybe the printer is grape too. None of the later models were grape. If so could the printer be an Epson 740i? Will find out on Monday when I pick it up. My first conquest in a while.

 

[Sludgedragon]

I'd bet on the Epson 740i. I really, really wanted a grape one when I got my 333 but they were out, and I ended up with tangerine.

 

[jkoci]

I really, really wanted a grape one when I got my 333 but they were out, and I ended up with tangerine.

I wonder which colors were the most sold. How rare is a grape iMac?

 

[slimac55]

I really, really wanted a grape one when I got my 333 but they were out, and I ended up with tangerine.

I wonder which colors were the most sold. How rare is a grape iMac?

I'm pretty sure the grape iMac was the most popular of all the fruit colours iMacs.

Edit: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-102122.html?legacy=zdnn

 

[Gil]

I have an Epson 740i that I got for free from an old teacher, about 4 years ago. It's a Bondi Blue printer. She used it with her iMac, which I assume was Bondi blue too.

It's a great printer, but mine won't feed paper correctly. :-/ :'(

 

[jkoci]

I'm pretty sure the grape iMac was the most popular of all the fruit colours iMacs.

Thanks. It looks like tangerine was not.

 

[jkoci]

After some research I found out that the 400mhz DV model also came in grape. Maybe I'll get lucky.

 

[Scott Baret]

Based on observation I'd say tangerine and lime are the least popular iMac colors. Blueberry, grape, and strawberry would probably be tops in that order out of the original fruit colors.

The 740i was more expensive than the regular 740 in its day; I bought a regular beige 740 with my tangerine iBook for that reason. They're good printers unless yours fell victim to the streaking issue or if you need vibrant shades of red--the reds on mine tended to be a bit dark. Pretty decent quality prints though, I used mine everyday from 2000-2003 and continued to use it for two years after that as a second printer before I got my LaserJet.

 

[Sludgedragon]

My Epson 740 (not i) chugged bravely along from 1999 until 2006, when it stopped pulling the paper through. During this same time I went from the aforementioned orange iMac, to a graphite 600 (I didn't want anything to do with the awful Flower Power or Blue Dalmatian grotesqueries), to my current iMac G5. I replaced it with another Epson, a CX5000. I like me an Epson. :beige:

 

[joshc]

When I bought my iMac I wanted a tangerine one, but they only had flower power or dalmatian - I went for dalmatian.

 

[Christopher]

I think both the flower power and blue dalmatian were pretty sweet looking despite what you everyone says. Then again I long for stuff I think is cool that everyone else hates.

 

[jkoci]

Got it today. It is a 266mhz model. It boots fine from a CD and will not mount the hard drive. Only 32mb of ram. It had the software CD still in it. The printer is a grape 740i.

 

[jkoci]

I put 128mb of ram and a 13gb drive in it. It now runs os 9.2.1 quite well now. I have to decide what to use it for now.

 

[Christopher]

I have a grape 266 with 192 and a 27GB 7200RPM hard drive. they run quite well for some reason despite such low MHz.

It even runs Mozilla web browser really well too, as long as facebook isn't used. Using facebook on that thing is about as *fast* as the OS 9 log in process.

 

[jkoci]

Got an email from the person who gave me the iMac and they found the matching mouse. Picked it up today along with a teal hockey puck mouse.