NewWorld build #7: Graphite iMac DV SE/500.

[CC_333]

Yeah, these are really neat machines.

I have two, a Rev. C and 400 MHz Slot Load, both Tangerine, which I've been meaning to restore. Except for a missing CD-ROM bezel, the Rev. C has fared pretty well. The Slot Loader, on the other hand, is a mess. The plastics are cracking, the headphone jack board is broken, and the speakers, although physically intact aside from a hole in one of the cones, don't work. Both were bought new, so they've have been used a fair amount by me, and I only recently began to be able to take care of them (in the past, I simply used them).

They're not necessarily the easiest to take apart, but I think the rewards are well worth the effort .

c

 

[Schmoburger]

Yeh I used to have a lime Rev. C as my workhorse years and years ago... CD-ROM drive was fubar so I put one out of an old dead Mitac laptop in it. Considered buying the Harmoni upgrade for it but decided it it really wasnt a worthwhile expenditure of my money. I ended up selling it eventually. I still have a few in the shed... some Limes, a Strawberry and a Grape Rev. D, most are FBT victims but I'd like to eventually get one working again for the collection, quite possibly the Strawberry as it belonged to a dear family friend who bought it brand new and used it up until the FBT spat the dummy and he passed it onto me... he unfortunately was taken by cancer last year.

 

[CC_333]

You're not in the USA, right? I suspect Australia, but I'm not positively certain...

Anyway, if I can ever get a complete set of casing for my Tangerine slot loader, I will probably fix it up to like new condition once again.

I also have a Rev. C iMac which I fixed up sometime last year. I got it used in the electronics area of a nearby consignment warehouse.

And then I got a Slot Loader Strawberry for Christmas last year, and I have yet to work on that (my precursory examination concluded that it needed a hard drive).

Anyway, best of luck with your iMac restorations!

c

 

[Schmoburger]

Yep, Your suspecting is correct. heheh

I was on the phone to my brother the other morning and he apparently had a tangerine with smashed case plastics... it annoyed me like you wouldnt believe. Came from our old high school and of all the dodgy crappy indigos that couldve been trashed, it ended up being the one single tangerine that bit the dust. >

I was hoping to score a Bondi Rev. A from my friendly local toolshop actually, which theyd actually said I could have when they upgraded. Then I moved interstate and in that time the hard drive apparently died in the ass so they decided to just toss it figuring I probably wouldnt want a broken computer. Doh! :O

 

[Schmoburger]

Latest progress... found a 512Mb PC-133 stick in my RAM drawer and a 60Gb Barra drive I pulled out of an eMac in the cupboard, so Ive just taken out the test-RAM and test-drive and decided to throw them in in the interim until I get round to ordering a couple of new drives and some more RAM to fuel my various projects.

The eMac drive appears to have Tiger installed but it's hanging at the spinning flower so I'm gonna have to do a reinstall... Only issue being that at the moment I can only find my Panther discs, but not my Tiger disc. This is why I don't lend software. >

ALso found a pair of speakers with split surrounds that I'm going to perform some experimentation on with regards to preserving the old deteriorated surrounds with a flexible adhesive membrane such that they may still be lightly used without falling apart.