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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
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Well, a mate called me on Wednesday and told me there were Macs for sale in the local paper...He gave me the number, I called it and liked what I heard, an iMac for £30! My mate picked it up for me today, here are some pictures clicky. Even better, they guy gave my mate two as he wanted to get rid of them! Two for £30! It's an iMac G3 (350MHz), it has 256MB of RAM and a 20GB hard drive! Comes with a fresh install of Tiger, though I'm thinking of downgrading it to 10.3 to speed it up a tad... Well chuffed, I won't get to play with it until sometime in May when I go back to Aber next though 
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Danstevens
Occasionally has a life
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Congratulations on that. Even if the G3 is ancient, £15 for a working and perfectly usable computer is a great price
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| Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:32 pm |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Indeed, my mate has been playing with it and it looks like the second revision of the first generation (summer 2000). Nine years old! 
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ChurchCat
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:57 am
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I miss my G3 iMac.  _________________A Mac user 
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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What happened to it CC?
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ChurchCat
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I sold it. In fact I sold both my G3 iMacs including the original Bondi Blue one. The new flat screen machines are nice but somehow they don't have the G3 charm. _________________A Mac user
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Nick
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:36 pm
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The G3 I bought from you ChurchCat was my first Mac. I believe it was yours too??? I sold it a while ago, but it served me well.  _________________
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ChurchCat
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That was my best Mac so far.  Beautiful and without a fan nearly silent. _________________A Mac user
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Danstevens
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A G3 imac was my first mac too. There are some cheap G4 emacs on eBay at the moment - untested but for £20, I might see if I can get lucky. Old Macs are always fun to play around with.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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I've been talking to CC, about the OS thing...I think I'll stick with Tiger for the time being...But if I can get hold of the disks, having a play with System 8/9 might be quite fun!
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ChurchCat
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No reason not to have both on the machine I suppose. Or put another OS on an external disc. _________________A Mac user
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Oooo, a dual boot system...Only thing is, I seem to recall reading System 9 needed a low firmware version and 10.4 needed a higher one...
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