What would you do with an iMac G3?

[pianodude123]

I have two iMac G3s, which I am need to get rid of. They both have airport cards in them and both have screen tint issues. I figure that if I sold them on ebay, I would not get much for them, however if I disassembled them, I could get more for the parts?


What would you do?

And...if you were going to sell the parts, which would you sell and which are not worth anything (toss)?

 

[iPhil]

I have two iMac G3s, which I am need to get rid of. They both have airport cards in them and both have screen tint issues. I figure that if I sold them on ebay, I would not get much for them, however if I disassembled them, I could get more for the parts?


What would you do?

And...if you were going to sell the parts, which would you sell and which are not worth anything (toss)?

I got an G3 iMac thats connected via ethernet to wifi network thru my G4 .. what i'm trying to do with the G3 is protein Folding machine

 

[pianodude123]

okay...but how would you sell it?

 

[Cromulent]

Hard drives, RAM, Optical Drives. Anything like that really, plus keep all the cables etc. I'm always looking for things like that hence the fact I have about 4 or 5 computers all half taken apart to get cheap upgrades for my newer ones.

I'm not sure how much you would get though for selling them separately.

 

[echeck]

The Airport cards should definitely be worth something at least.

I got a Bondi G3 iMac a couple of months ago and I want to upgrade the RAM and potentially a Hard Drive.

What are your specs? If they're compatible with mine then I might be interested in taking some of these things off your hands for a reasonable price.

EDIT: Oh, and yeah, I wouldn't bother selling them on ebay as single units. You'd probably have more luck parting them out.

 

[pianodude123]

ya...thats pretty much what i just did.

I kept the ram, HD, airport, motherboard...with processor... 400MHz BondiBlue Firewire, optical drive, speakers and mics.

Now...what should I do to dispose of the CRT part?

 

[Sweetfeld28]

look around your local area, there should be a eletronics disposal [or recycling center] that should do this for free.


On a side note, i have thought of turning my sisters old G3 into a itunes server, for streaaming my music through the house to my other Macs.

 

[puckhead193]

make a macquarium

 

[StealthRider]

Airport (not Extreme) cards can go for more than $80 each, definitely sell those!

 

[iPods rule!]

If you mean the screen, dispose of it. If you mean the casing, look around for some ideas on the net. I saw where someone took a CRT casing and made it a trash can. What a hateful thing to do to a CRT Mac, but to an old PC they deserve it!