G3 iMac on Colbert Report

[Roderick Usher]

A double-whammy of nerd nostalgia. I love that they kept the entire modem handshake.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/219665/february-24-2009/1997-flashback

 

[phreakindee]

Haha, nice. Gotta love how it was Windows 95 they showed on screen.

 

[David Schmidt]

A double-whammy of nerd nostalgia. I love that they kept the entire modem handshake.

Just think... a whole generation will be growing up never having heard the dance of modem negotiation.

 

[SkyBell]

Just think... a whole generation will be growing up never having heard the dance of modem negotiation.

It's a memory best left forgotten, at least to me.

That was fantastic though.

 

[Sirobin]

I love how he never actually plugged it in

 

[wbe858]

I just bought one of those.....really, but its not green.
As much as i try and cant get windows 95 on it though...i wish he would share the secret with us.

 

[WardC]

except he got it wrong, that is a green slot-loading model and it's not a 1998 model. There were only Bondi iMacs in 1998 because they came out in August. That isn't a 266 or a 333MHz either, it's likely a green 350MHz model, slot-loading, which came out October 1999

 

[4JNA]

you got 9 on my 95... you got 95 on my 9... yummy!

.....As much as i try and cant get windows 95 on it though...i wish he would share the secret with us.

i'm not him, but it's an easy enough thing using VirtualPC. version 4 works well with that generation of iMac.

 

[wbe858]

i'm not him, but it's an easy enough thing using VirtualPC. version 4 works well with that generation of iMac.

Okay okay so there is that way, and it makes perfect sense and is easy and if i was at all serious i would do that...but...i wanted to do a native install...with floppies and everything...yea figure that one out...

if you come up with another very simple response to this....i quit...

 

[4JNA]

...with floppies and everything

ok, not native... but i still have my original 23 floppy disk windows 95 install set. would that work?

you say "floppy", i say "ouch, my elbow hurts from changing floppies', lets call the whole thing off!