I only play that drinking game when people say it wrong. The colour was named for Bondi Beach, in Australia, and he’s saying it right. Americans generally say it with the i as in salami. “Bondee”, they say, and to every Australian, that’s like nails on a chalkboard, if the chalkboard were literally our spines.
I remember using these as a kid in my elementary school. I use to think they looked really cool and still do to this day. I would love to own one. If I ever seen on in a thrift store it's mine :D
No, the correct pronunciation is "Bon-dai". It's named after the color of the water at Bondi Beach in Australia. Steve Jobs mistakenly pronounced it "bon-dee", but he was wrong. I trust the way the Australians say it, because that's where the name came from.
between the ethernet and modem, the top pin hole is a reset button, the bottom is for interrupt/open firmware. the knockout plate is for an expansion interface that wasn't really ever utilized. I actually have on of the Revision A iMacs, I updated it to Mac OS 8.5.
Actually, yes... the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST series came with GUI operating systems, and even some C64s and C128s were sold packaged with GEOS and a mouse.
I like the disk drive better on that one than the later iMacs with the slot thing that grabbed your disk. Sometimes they didn't come back.. The blue G3 iMac was the first new computer I ever bought. I ordered it on the internet in November 2000 and it arrived 3 hours later. Those iMac shell cases can really take punishment. I had to take it in for service and dropped it three feet to the concrete sidewalk. I heard a loud crack and went "Oh s%$(!" I got it home and I was so relieved when I turned it on and it booted right up. There was a good 4 inch crack on the casing but nothing else was damaged. I used it for 4 years and sold for $30 and to this day the person has never paid me. You know who you are...
Matthew28845 I never should have wasted my money on that iMac I was swayed by the Jeff Goldblum commercial and how user-friendly he made the iMac sound. "All you have to do is take it out of the box, plug in the power, the phone jack and you're on the internet" Little did I realize how difficult it was to get inside the thing..Twice I had to take that iMac in for service and both times the bill was over $100. I've always been fairly good at diagnosing PC computers but I've never worked on an Apple and I paid too much for it to risk it.
***** I don't know why. I've never had any problems with tray loading drives. It's easier to get a stuck tray open than to remove a disk caught in a slot.
@Knaeckebrotsaege I forgot to mention that the Rev. A iMac also has an unused pinout on the system board for an internal floppy drive. If you solder on the connector, you can actually add the floppy drive and it will work, although it's only supported in OS 8.x.
I remember when these came out, I have never been a Apple Mac fan. However, after seeing one of these, I well wanted one. Mainly just for the looks of it. Very cool looking computer.
I sadly never had or got to use one of these but this whole design reminds me of a specific time period in my childhood/adolescence. I actually had a tiny radio alarm clock replica of it which I loved. I was tempted to buy one of these on ebay mid last year but I'm not sure I can justify the price. I'm by no means an Apple fan these days but this design is still my favourite for a desktop computer.
Fortunately when the DV series iMacs came out they put much better sounding speakers in, though you do have to keep an eye one them for foam rot which the older ones didn't suffer.
07:04 Wow! That was a QuickTime flashback! I actually remember that sample movie when you played that because I remember that I used to be amused with replaying the sample movie all the time in Quicktime 4 on Windows.
Had a play with one of these once. A mate had one, and couldn't get his hands on an OS 9 CD so he ended up putting Linux on it. It only took a few cap replacements to get it going. I'd love one one day, if I get a big enough house. But it's lower down my list, because it can't hook up to old Macs over serial AppleTalk, and it can't do cool modern stuff either. Dig the videos dude!
@uxwbill Lowendmac says it's pronounced "Bond-I". Mine makes a slight hissing noise when plugged in but not turned on, so I leave it unplugged when not in use.
iTunes 1 and 2 will run on Mac OS 9, but I don't know how much (if at all) they support newer iPods. I think nowadays you need at least iTunes 9 in order to download anything from the iTunes Store, which would obviously require OS X.
Nice system, I have a Rev.B iMac Bondi Blue in the original box, also upgraded to 512mb. The only thing wrong with it is the clip on the cable door in the side is broken (fixed with velcro) and I'm missing the Software CDs. I've got it running 10.3 Panther I think, might be 10.2, it's been a year since I used it. These were really cool looking back in the day. Great thing to keep around. Cheers!
@ErrorsAndComputers Sounds like the power supply could be dead, but just to make sure here are some steps you could take. 1. I am not sure about US plugs, but in the UK all of our cord plugs have fuses. So if you have them make sure it has not blown. 2. Use something like a kill-o-watt meter and see if any power is drawn from the outlet when you plug the iMac in. 3. Ask someone who has electrical knowledge to do some tests on the power supply's different voltage rails with a multimeter.
I had the slot-loader iMac g3 with OS X 10.4? i guess? Had one busted USB port. I got it from a thrift store and had it until 2011, when i had to get rid of it to get a modern laptop. Loved that thing. Was my music and photo machine. Even had Office for Mac on it!
The classic Mac OS was getting very outdated, and Apple inherited the UNIX-based NeXTSTEP operating system when they bought out Steve Jobs' company "NeXT", so they decided to use that as the basis for Mac OS X.
I remember the Imac when It was advertized with the Elvis Presley song Blue suade Shoes on TV in 98-99 period. Although I knew the see through monitor was only months away from obsolescence with the advent LCD screens..
I love the demo of that Westlife CD, kind of reminds me of the old Encarta Encyclopedia CD-ROMs with all the interactivity and the multimedia that it had. Although yes, that was exclusive to the Windows 9x platform, but... It's always been said "What Windows can do, Mac can do better." Well, might have been true at the time, but not sure what to think about nowadays.
@thelasthallow I'm probably not as old as you think I am! I was a teenager when I first heard of Westlife in 1999. In fact, two of the band members are older than me.
I saw 10.3.x running pretty well on this type of machine (but @300 MHz), even 10.4 ran on another one I saw (@233 MHz just like yours, if I remember right). So you could say it is still usable, as the software on 10.4.11 was many years ahead compared to the competitor's world (a.k.a. Windows on the PC).
Nice computer you got there. I remember when they came out with those. They looked so new and modern compared to other computers of the era, but holy crap it just looks so old now! Still a cool style though. I also like it how everything's built into the monitor, so all you need is the mouse and keyboard. You sure save a lot of space that way. I think something like that should be done today, only with everything built into the keyboard. Like a laptop, but with a seperate monitor.
i don't know why, but when i read the "nice computer you got there" part, the sound of the mario teaches typing head saying the same thing started playing in my head
I had one of these with Mac OS 9 on it and I installed Debian on it. Wild seeing the Linux Tux penguin during boot 😀I had no problem with Mac OS 9 except that it wasn't getting updates from Apple anymore so I installed Debian on it and that made it useful to me 😃 Nice computer.I don't have it anymore. Nice video as your videos are 😃
I have the 2001 Revision B in Blueberry. Runs 10.3.9 just fine with a PowerPC at 400Mhz and 320MB RAM. It used to run OS 9.2 in a dual boot...but I took that off because it was unusable to me.
I have a Rev B iMac, I think from 1999, so mine doesn't have the IR port on it. They were pretty unique machines for their time, the translucent plastic case is pretty cool, so many other companies who made consumer electronic devices also did that, I don't think Apple was the first, but they certainly got people talking. Unfortunately I think the CD ROM drive in my machine is on its way out.
You can download Classzilla and even an old version of Python 2.3 and have a decent little web browser and programming environment for that machine. I've got those two programs installed on an even older PPC Mac and it's quite useful compared to what would have come installed on it.
I have one of these in the trunk of my car. Needs a new flyback, as was a common problem with these. The flyback overhears and eventually pops, literally.
My school had several of the 1999 or 2000 i-macs and we would use them in computer class. They were prone to freezing i don't know if it was a clash with all the crap software the school would install on it but it was very frustrating. Getting a few different error messages then it would shut off completely or restart. Don't get me wrong i like the design of the computer over all just seemed unreliable.
@giammyzanna the reason tiger wont work on that imac is cause tiger required firewire which wasn't on the original imac but the later revisions the special editions and dv editions could run tiger
@Knaeckebrotsaege i had 2 tray loaders that were revision a and they were i think either 333 or 350 or 366 or something. but i know they were tray loaders and were marked revision a. the later slot loading drive macs had the better setup cause u didnt have to remove the whole guts of the machine to get at the ram and hard drive and optical drive.
A Pentium 2 Computer with a Voodo Banshee graphics card and Soundblaster sound card could run circles around a G3 Imac. At the time it was half the price too.
Here is what instantly got my attention the mouse pad I'm not certain but I have the poster and that's a Super Record rear derailleur. The great one made by Campagnolo very nice. Back in the day my company used the desktop version of that same processor speed same OS 7.1 and we ran a messenger program called Kiwi.
I'm wondering if there might be videos around on the evolution of the iMac from 1998 through the Late 2015 model. Seems there are loads of significant changes between then and now for sure.
+Robert Morin The most significant changes were between the iMac G3 and iMac G4, and the iMac G4 and iMac G5. After the G5, the design stayed mostly the same, except for the change of material (white polycarbonate plastic to aluminium/black plastic, and the larger screens, smaller bezels and thinner body).
can't believe this thing once cost over $1500. I was dumb enough to buy one and after 2 years it started giving me problems. I eventually sold it for $400 and the lady that bought it didn't mind that it had a couple of issues.
Unfortunately my iMac G3 is toast. The worst part is that even though it can be fixed, it's not feasible. The worst part to die is dead, which is the PAV board, and as I hear, is the hardest part to replace inside the iMac G3. Sucks too, because I don't have any other computers capable of really running Mac OS 9, which I have disks for.
I use to have one something like this one mine had over heating troubles. I brought it used. now i have Apple iMac G4/ 17-Inch Flat Panel for about year . Do you have this one too ?
I have one of these old iMacs however, it's screen started flickering until one day it just stopped working. Since then I can turn it on and hear the startup sound but when the screen is supposed to come on the whole iMac stops.
@vwestlife Tiger can run, just the install wants to see firewire but you can take the hard drive out install tiger on it and put it back in the system and it will boot
God, I hated those damn hockey puck mice! I had one with my strawberry iMac DV and it caused me to have tendonitis to the point where I just went with a regular potato shaped mouse.
That's brilliant! I am intrigued as to why they moved away from their own design and on to using UNIX; do you have an idea as to why they would do this?
I have the 2001 snow white imac so I never had the original imac, I,m curently playing around with a PowerBook G3 with Os 9.2 so I know the annoyance of switching back to old Mac system
I had a 333mhz iMac that I picked up for free... but it got fried after I tried to install a G4 upgrade in it (by Daystar). Hey, with 512mb, you might like MintPPC 9.3 (Linux for PPC Macs)... it has a nice, fairly modern browser (think of an equivalent to Firefox 7.x)... Not as snappy as the old OS 8.x, but probably comparable to OS 9.2.2.
The panel on the side is for the Mezzanine slot. It's a PCI slot with a proprietary connector and couple of companies made cards for it. The best known is Formac's combination SCSI/TV tuner card. I found it on ebay here -- bit.ly/1fA8tni -- a little pricy, but it is brand new, still in the bag. Also, one of the other posters is correct, the hole in the cover is for your finger, there is a slot to pass the all the cables through.
drinking game
take a shot every time he says "Bondi blue"
I played the drinking game.
I now have liver disease.
I only play that drinking game when people say it wrong. The colour was named for Bondi Beach, in Australia, and he’s saying it right. Americans generally say it with the i as in salami. “Bondee”, they say, and to every Australian, that’s like nails on a chalkboard, if the chalkboard were literally our spines.
I remember using these as a kid in my elementary school. I use to think they looked really cool and still do to this day. I would love to own one. If I ever seen on in a thrift store it's mine :D
No, the correct pronunciation is "Bon-dai". It's named after the color of the water at Bondi Beach in Australia. Steve Jobs mistakenly pronounced it "bon-dee", but he was wrong. I trust the way the Australians say it, because that's where the name came from.
The indigenous people made the correct name
those classic os 9 sound effects bring back good memories
My iMac G3 sounds like it's going to burst into flames when you plug in the Power!
My school had these. They were dank AF.
Samee back in elementary. The good ol' sound of turning them on in the computer lab brings back memories.
Pred my school used emacs
between the ethernet and modem, the top pin hole is a reset button, the bottom is for interrupt/open firmware. the knockout plate is for an expansion interface that wasn't really ever utilized. I actually have on of the Revision A iMacs, I updated it to Mac OS 8.5.
I remember when 300mhz was fast.
+RocketMan153251 Even better with the turbo button
Siden Corp. Man, the turbo button is a missing feature from cases i wish they would bring back.
I remember when 12 Mhz was fast, WITH the turbo button pressed :)
Actually, yes... the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST series came with GUI operating systems, and even some C64s and C128s were sold packaged with GEOS and a mouse.
I like the disk drive better on that one than the later iMacs with the slot thing that grabbed your disk. Sometimes they didn't come back.. The blue G3 iMac was the first new computer I ever bought. I ordered it on the internet in November 2000 and it arrived 3 hours later. Those iMac shell cases can really take punishment. I had to take it in for service and dropped it three feet to the concrete sidewalk. I heard a loud crack and went "Oh s%$(!" I got it home and I was so relieved when I turned it on and it booted right up. There was a good 4 inch crack on the casing but nothing else was damaged. I used it for 4 years and sold for $30 and to this day the person has never paid me. You know who you are...
Yeah the disk in mine seems to get a bit stuck and I need to pull it out.
Matthew28845 I never should have wasted my money on that iMac I was swayed by the Jeff Goldblum commercial and how user-friendly he made the iMac sound. "All you have to do is take it out of the box, plug in the power, the phone jack and you're on the internet"
Little did I realize how difficult it was to get inside the thing..Twice I had to take that iMac in for service and both times the bill was over $100. I've always been fairly good at diagnosing PC computers but I've never worked on an Apple and I paid too much for it to risk it.
I think Apple had a philosophy of less moving parts and I'm reading a book on Jony Ive now, apparently Steve Jobs didn't like the tray loading drive.
***** I don't know why. I've never had any problems with tray loading drives. It's easier to get a stuck tray open than to remove a disk caught in a slot.
Your videos are great. The way you describe everything is perfect. You sure know your stuff, too.
My high school had these and I remember thinking they were the coolest, most high tech thing I ever saw
@Knaeckebrotsaege I forgot to mention that the Rev. A iMac also has an unused pinout on the system board for an internal floppy drive. If you solder on the connector, you can actually add the floppy drive and it will work, although it's only supported in OS 8.x.
@leo77cruz See my video entitled, appropriately enough, "Taking apart & upgrading the original iMac".
watching on a 2008 macbook
Things were so much simpler back then...
I remember when these came out, I have never been a Apple Mac fan. However, after seeing one of these, I well wanted one. Mainly just for the looks of it. Very cool looking computer.
I remember this old computer, this thing is awesome, back in the day it was, but still is today also!
I sadly never had or got to use one of these but this whole design reminds me of a specific time period in my childhood/adolescence. I actually had a tiny radio alarm clock replica of it which I loved. I was tempted to buy one of these on ebay mid last year but I'm not sure I can justify the price. I'm by no means an Apple fan these days but this design is still my favourite for a desktop computer.
Oh man, I'm getting some hardcore nostalgia. I used to own a first gen iMac. I kind of miss it.
Interesting when you played that song the speakers really kicked out that one key that the startup tone plays in
Fortunately when the DV series iMacs came out they put much better sounding speakers in, though you do have to keep an eye one them for foam rot which the older ones didn't suffer.
Beautiful design
07:04 Wow! That was a QuickTime flashback! I actually remember that sample movie when you played that because I remember that I used to be amused with replaying the sample movie all the time in Quicktime 4 on Windows.
Had a play with one of these once. A mate had one, and couldn't get his hands on an OS 9 CD so he ended up putting Linux on it. It only took a few cap replacements to get it going. I'd love one one day, if I get a big enough house. But it's lower down my list, because it can't hook up to old Macs over serial AppleTalk, and it can't do cool modern stuff either. Dig the videos dude!
Just takes me down memory lane
@uxwbill Lowendmac says it's pronounced "Bond-I". Mine makes a slight hissing noise when plugged in but not turned on, so I leave it unplugged when not in use.
iTunes 1 and 2 will run on Mac OS 9, but I don't know how much (if at all) they support newer iPods. I think nowadays you need at least iTunes 9 in order to download anything from the iTunes Store, which would obviously require OS X.
The knockout port was used by a "Mezzanine" slot, which was a debug port used by Apple, although a few things were made for it anyway.
Nice system, I have a Rev.B iMac Bondi Blue in the original box, also upgraded to 512mb. The only thing wrong with it is the clip on the cable door in the side is broken (fixed with velcro) and I'm missing the Software CDs. I've got it running 10.3 Panther I think, might be 10.2, it's been a year since I used it.
These were really cool looking back in the day. Great thing to keep around. Cheers!
Had an orange one when I was little. I enjoyed playing games like Bugdom, Mazeball, Candyland and Nanosaur on it.
Yes.
@ErrorsAndComputers Sounds like the power supply could be dead, but just to make sure here are some steps you could take.
1. I am not sure about US plugs, but in the UK all of our cord plugs have fuses. So if you have them make sure it has not blown.
2. Use something like a kill-o-watt meter and see if any power is drawn from the outlet when you plug the iMac in.
3. Ask someone who has electrical knowledge to do some tests on the power supply's different voltage rails with a multimeter.
I had the slot-loader iMac g3 with OS X 10.4? i guess? Had one busted USB port. I got it from a thrift store and had it until 2011, when i had to get rid of it to get a modern laptop. Loved that thing. Was my music and photo machine. Even had Office for Mac on it!
WOW so much memories of my childhood
@giammyzanna No, 10.3.9 is the newest version that will run on it.
It's supposed to be "Matsushita", the parent company of Panasonic. They misspelled it.
The classic Mac OS was getting very outdated, and Apple inherited the UNIX-based NeXTSTEP operating system when they bought out Steve Jobs' company "NeXT", so they decided to use that as the basis for Mac OS X.
I remember the Imac when It was advertized with the Elvis Presley song Blue suade Shoes on TV in 98-99 period. Although I knew the see through monitor was only months away from obsolescence with the advent LCD screens..
I love the demo of that Westlife CD, kind of reminds me of the old Encarta Encyclopedia CD-ROMs with all the interactivity and the multimedia that it had. Although yes, that was exclusive to the Windows 9x platform, but... It's always been said "What Windows can do, Mac can do better." Well, might have been true at the time, but not sure what to think about nowadays.
@thelasthallow I'm probably not as old as you think I am! I was a teenager when I first heard of Westlife in 1999. In fact, two of the band members are older than me.
I saw 10.3.x running pretty well on this type of machine (but @300 MHz), even 10.4 ran on another one I saw (@233 MHz just like yours, if I remember right). So you could say it is still usable, as the software on 10.4.11 was many years ahead compared to the competitor's world (a.k.a. Windows on the PC).
It was Apple's own design.
verry nice!
I have the blueberry iMac from 2000 and still running under OSX 10.3.9
Me too that is one awesome computer :)
Nice computer you got there. I remember when they came out with those. They looked so new and modern compared to other computers of the era, but holy crap it just looks so old now! Still a cool style though.
I also like it how everything's built into the monitor, so all you need is the mouse and keyboard. You sure save a lot of space that way. I think something like that should be done today, only with everything built into the keyboard. Like a laptop, but with a seperate monitor.
i don't know why, but when i read the "nice computer you got there" part, the sound of the mario teaches typing head saying the same thing started playing in my head
I had one of these with Mac OS 9 on it and I installed Debian on it. Wild seeing the Linux Tux penguin during boot 😀I had no problem with Mac OS 9 except that it wasn't getting updates from Apple anymore so I installed Debian on it and that made it useful to me 😃 Nice computer.I don't have it anymore. Nice video as your videos are 😃
HAHAHAH! Saw the video length on UA-cam's first page and HAD to come in
This video is like something out of the 80s or early 90s.
I have the 2001 Revision B in Blueberry. Runs 10.3.9 just fine with a PowerPC at 400Mhz and 320MB RAM. It used to run OS 9.2 in a dual boot...but I took that off because it was unusable to me.
I have a Rev B iMac, I think from 1999, so mine doesn't have the IR port on it. They were pretty unique machines for their time, the translucent plastic case is pretty cool, so many other companies who made consumer electronic devices also did that, I don't think Apple was the first, but they certainly got people talking. Unfortunately I think the CD ROM drive in my machine is on its way out.
I miss my I mac was able to get 9.2.2 Mac os on it there was a site where u could download games had some good ones
Rev.A/Rev.B: Bondi Blue
Rev.C/Rev.D: 5 "flavours" (Blueberry, Grape, Lime, Tangerine, Strawberry)
Slot loaders: 5 "flavours", Graphite, Snow, Indigo, Ruby, Sage, Flower Power, Blue Dalmatian
beautiful speaking voice :-)
You can download Classzilla and even an old version of Python 2.3 and have a decent little web browser and programming environment for that machine. I've got those two programs installed on an even older PPC Mac and it's quite useful compared to what would have come installed on it.
I have one of these in the trunk of my car. Needs a new flyback, as was a common problem with these. The flyback overhears and eventually pops, literally.
Probably for classroom use, so two kids can share one computer, or a teacher and a student.
My 8th grade teacher has three of these siting in the back of the room. All original, with the mouse & keyboard.
My school had several of the 1999 or 2000 i-macs and we would use them in computer class. They were prone to freezing i don't know if it was a clash with all the crap software the school would install on it but it was very frustrating. Getting a few different error messages then it would shut off completely or restart. Don't get me wrong i like the design of the computer over all just seemed unreliable.
Probably the software the school used. OS 9 was a fairly reliable OS.
thanks for not violating any copyrights
@giammyzanna the reason tiger wont work on that imac is cause tiger required firewire which wasn't on the original imac but the later revisions the special editions and dv editions could run tiger
I have some of the old macs...
man i love these older machines where all these "low end" specs by today's standards were the top end for these machines.
much more than top end! more like 10 times more powerful.
@Knaeckebrotsaege i had 2 tray loaders that were revision a and they were i think either 333 or 350 or 366 or something. but i know they were tray loaders and were marked revision a. the later slot loading drive macs had the better setup cause u didnt have to remove the whole guts of the machine to get at the ram and hard drive and optical drive.
I just checked the spotify page for westlife and they literally released an album today
It's a release, not really an album, their last album was 2010. www.discogs.com/artist/152450-Westlife
@Jallge VW (Volkswagen).
i remember using one in like 3-4th grade. memories,,,,,,
@ErrorsAndComputers Are there any lights that light up on the front of the machine or on the motherboard?
@thelasthallow I was rather infatuated with them back in the early to mid 2000s... that's where my screen name came from (VW + Westlife).
A Pentium 2 Computer with a Voodo Banshee graphics card and Soundblaster sound card could run circles around a G3 Imac. At the time it was half the price too.
@vwestlife I guess it's because it only has a 233 mhz processor.
i remember those when i was in college
The hole in the side is for you finger, not the cables. The cables run down next to the hinge.
Here is what instantly got my attention the mouse pad I'm not certain but I have the poster and that's a Super Record rear derailleur. The great one made by Campagnolo very nice. Back in the day my company used the desktop version of that same processor speed same OS 7.1 and we ran a messenger program called Kiwi.
I'm wondering if there might be videos around on the evolution of the iMac from 1998 through the Late 2015 model. Seems there are loads of significant changes between then and now for sure.
+Robert Morin The most significant changes were between the iMac G3 and iMac G4, and the iMac G4 and iMac G5. After the G5, the design stayed mostly the same, except for the change of material (white polycarbonate plastic to aluminium/black plastic, and the larger screens, smaller bezels and thinner body).
can't believe this thing once cost over $1500. I was dumb enough to buy one and after 2 years it started giving me problems. I eventually sold it for $400 and the lady that bought it didn't mind that it had a couple of issues.
Unfortunately my iMac G3 is toast. The worst part is that even though it can be fixed, it's not feasible. The worst part to die is dead, which is the PAV board, and as I hear, is the hardest part to replace inside the iMac G3.
Sucks too, because I don't have any other computers capable of really running Mac OS 9, which I have disks for.
i had a computer from 1997 that wasnt used in 10 years and it works totally fine
Yes I'm talking about a Power Macintosh 9600
+Carlos Eduardo "Wasn't USED in 10 years"
+Carlos Eduardo wasn't USED in 10 years
I use to have one something like this one mine had over heating troubles. I brought it used. now i have Apple iMac G4/ 17-Inch Flat Panel for about year . Do you have this one too ?
I have one of these old iMacs however, it's screen started flickering until one day it just stopped working. Since then I can turn it on and hear the startup sound but when the screen is supposed to come on the whole iMac stops.
I'm having the most ridiculous thought. Lol. Apple needs to name their next computer the Pi.
lol
+kroakie4 yum yum Apple Pi
**2 hours after its release Raspberry Pi sues them, then Apple wins because of our screwed up government**
+Fiber Silkington, lmao.
More like iP...
@ErrorsAndComputers Probably a dead power supply.
Even my ibook g4 (2004) says matshita. Must be some kind of abbreviation.
The kind of computer my elementary school was using. They had some fun but were terrible for internet access.
You could run early versions of OSX, or a Linux distro, on these things, for a slightly newer OS.
@vwestlife Tiger can run, just the install wants to see firewire but you can take the hard drive out install tiger on it and put it back in the system and it will boot
I have a G3/700 SE happily running OS 9.2.2.
I saw one of these in the hallway of my school district's tech boneyard.
7:51 - I can verify this. The Rev B switched from the ATI Rage IIC to the Rage Pro Turbo with a stock 6mb VRAM.
Tandy 1000RL.
God, I hated those damn hockey puck mice! I had one with my strawberry iMac DV and it caused me to have tendonitis to the point where I just went with a regular potato shaped mouse.
@EastAngliaUK I haven't tried, but probably not.
Wow that is ancient before apple even had a dock
That's brilliant! I am intrigued as to why they moved away from their own design and on to using UNIX; do you have an idea as to why they would do this?
The cables don't go thru the finger hole on the side door. They are threaded down.
Well its a tray loading model so it will support upto 10.3 Panther
I have the 2001 snow white imac so I never had the original imac,
I,m curently playing around with a PowerBook G3 with Os 9.2 so I know the annoyance of switching back to old Mac system
I had a 333mhz iMac that I picked up for free... but it got fried after I tried to install a G4 upgrade in it (by Daystar).
Hey, with 512mb, you might like MintPPC 9.3 (Linux for PPC Macs)... it has a nice, fairly modern browser (think of an equivalent to Firefox 7.x)... Not as snappy as the old OS 8.x, but probably comparable to OS 9.2.2.
The panel on the side is for the Mezzanine slot. It's a PCI slot with a proprietary connector and couple of companies made cards for it. The best known is Formac's combination SCSI/TV tuner card. I found it on ebay here -- bit.ly/1fA8tni -- a little pricy, but it is brand new, still in the bag. Also, one of the other posters is correct, the hole in the cover is for your finger, there is a slot to pass the all the cables through.
#1 rule of Apple: Steve Jobs is NEVER wrong.