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Join Date: Oct 2008
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Customer bought their G3 iMac in today as they had finally filled up the hard drive and wanted more space.
It came in in it's original packaging, still had the plastic on the carry handle and the foot and was absolutely spotless. Inside was completely mint, not a speck of dust anywhere, wowsers! Running OS 9.0 with 128Mb ram. Anyways I loaded in an 80 GB drive and fitted 356MB of RAM but the customer wasn't interested in upgrading to OS X. They just use photoshop 5 to do some drawing etc, no internet or mail etc.
A mad moment formatting the new drive, had to pop it in the iMac and use the original os disk to format it since my Leopard server wouldn't format it in any readable way. I do so love transferring over these small drives. 4GB of user data doesn't take long to do,even over usb 1.0
I'll bet this iMac has a good few years left in it now!
(Last edited by Doc HM; Nov 3, 2009 at 02:40 PM.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Naugatuck, CT
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Well done! You saved it!
(About 1.5 years ago) I brought in my then 5 y/o "Original" (I'm not a big enough nerd to know what the kids call it these days) 17" PowerMac into the Apple Store for some sprucing up, and I was basically laughed out of the store. I bought an iMac, and convinced my PC-strictly hubby to finagle it. He managed, and now I use both regularly. 
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Originally Posted by MrsLarry 
(About 1.5 years ago) I brought in my then 5 y/o "Original" (I'm not a big enough nerd to know what the kids call it these days) 17" PowerMac into the Apple Store for some sprucing up, and I was basically laughed out of the store. I bought an iMac, and convinced my PC-strictly hubby to finagle it. He managed, and now I use both regularly.
What's a '17" PowerMac'?
Anyways, a local computer shop was giving away G4 350 Power Macs a few months back. I thought of picking one up, but then decided I'd just end up spending a bunch of money on it to upgrade it, so I stopped myself. 
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I still have the one, the only, the original, FrankeniMac. The most modified 1st gen iMac in existence, that still retains it's original motherboard/CRT. Upgraded to 600mhz G3 Harmoni with Firewire, 160gig drive, 512 megs of ram, 8 meg voodoo2, 6 meg ATI Rage IIC, graphics, lights, and a bunch of other crap I can't remember. Currently just sits in the basement. Not really sure what to do with it. For a while I used it as a torrent server, but even transmission was too "heavy" for the G3. 
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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Still have my Cube, and Blueberry iBook.
Also have a PowerMac 7600. Yum.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Originally Posted by Eug
What's a '17" PowerMac'?
DOH! Power Book
Sorry, caffeine lapse.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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i just pulled my Pismo Powerbook out of the cupboard to compare it to my new MacBook Pro (which I still call a Powerbook). I miss the sleek little guy, 6G hard drive, 400 Mhz. Style is timeless and processor speed/hard drive size is only now...
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