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Yes There Is GOD! And he heard my cry for an iMac G3..

redhatcode29

redhatcode29

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This has to be the best Christmas present for me for the year. What a find to end the year !

Guys, the Imac G3 is among the Apple rigs which is considered as rare and unique in my nation. Though the Cube was one of the most rare ones. I coudnt believe my eyes when i saw the advert for the G3 and it was wrongly labeled as an Imac g4 !

A graphite 600mhz which boots smoothly in Panther, bundled with Apple Pro Keyboard and Mouse, the OS discs....The owner seemed to be the initial owner of the G3..

....damn can this get better ? Yes it It DID! the owner threw in a a dozen of ew softwares - Pagemaker, Quarkxpress, Word, Adb Illustrator, Photoshop and a few more of which ill never need ! He gave me the discs, though some of the wares were already installed in the G3.

Well, if that's not enough...and as if he read my mind, he threw in the computer table as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was all :D:D:D:D driving back home with cheers of Christmas Carols. Ho Ho Ho all of it for USD50.00.
 

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tampasteve said:
That is not a bad find anywhere, and especially in Indonesia! Great for you, and merry Christmas!
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Thanks tampasteve.

Yeah its a great find for me. My location is Malaysia, neighbour to Indonesia.

I like your area info ! I had a similar one in my Facebook info... It goes like like this towards the end.... Bla bla... Asia, Planet Earth, Solar System.

Merry Christmas to you too:)
 
And i had reason to say my cry was heard..... just on 9th Nov 2014, i quoted that i'd kill for a G3 !
 

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not only did you score a g3 you got a good model of one. i also have a 600mhz one and i use it for playing around in os9 from time to time. it's the only computer i have hooked up to a printer.
 
redhatcode29 said:
Thanks tampasteve.

Yeah its a great find for me. My location is Malaysia, neighbour to Indonesia.

I like your area info ! I had a similar one in my Facebook info... It goes like like this towards the end.... Bla bla... Asia, Planet Earth, Solar System.

Merry Christmas to you too:)
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Ha, of course, KL is Malaysia. My mistake! :eek:

I wish I could claim my area info as my own, it's taken from the Sci-Fi series "Undying Mercenaries" by B.V. Larson. It is a great space sci-fi series of books if you are interested in staring a new book, there are currently three books the series; the first is called Steel World.
 
poiihy said:
iMac bla bla bla..... but with a table?! hahaha nice
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Yeah, great aint it! I was already running out of tables... This came like a package... Thanks !

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tampasteve said:
if you are interested in staring a new book, there are currently three books the series; the first is called Steel World.
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Sounds tempting, but i am tied up with some @&£%^*+#€$¥ .... Maybe when i am done with it ..... Thanks!
 
gooser said:
you do remember that when those machines were new that they were dual boot don't you?
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Yeah....ive noticed, from what i have observed, every Mac of mine which runs Panther, does have an option to dual boot with OS9.

How do they do it... They install it after the install of Panther or it is a part of the Panthers installation or it is incorporated in the Panther's package ,,,,

I would love to have it in dual boot again .....
 
redhatcode29 said:
Yeah....ive noticed, from what i have observed, every Mac of mine which runs Panther, does have an option to dual boot with OS9.

How do they do it... They install it after the install of Panther or it is a part of the Panthers installation or it is incorporated in the Panther's package ,,,,

I would love to have it in dual boot again .....
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IIRC, you start out with OS9. The restore images were OS9 installers.
 
Nice, and a 600Mhz model too! iMac G3s are almost TOO common in the U.S., and it's too bad that they are difficult to find in other countries; good score on this one. If you have a spare IDE HD that is a little newer, it would really help in one of these G3s. The original HDs in these things are (obviously) small and very noisy. I stuck a newer, 40GB WD HD each in two of my iMac G3s. Not only is it much quieter, but the computer runs better overall.

This was (maybe still is?) my favorite Mac to collect! Enjoy yours.
 
PowerMac G4 MDD said:
Nice, and a 600Mhz model too! iMac G3s are almost TOO common in the U.S., and it's too bad that they are difficult to find in other countries; good score on this one. If you have a spare IDE HD that is a little newer, it would really help in one of these G3s. The original HDs in these things are (obviously) small and very noisy. I stuck a newer, 40GB WD HD each in two of my iMac G3s. Not only is it much quieter, but the computer runs better overall.

This was (maybe still is?) my favorite Mac to collect! Enjoy yours.
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Hi MDD,

Thanks. Actually it is a bit noisy, i shall take your advice on that. True it is rare over here.
 
I have its twin sitting on my desk! Congrats on the find. Mine dual boots OS 9 and OS X Jaguar. I have enough machines with Tiger and Leopard and I thought I could install 10.2.8 on the G3 just to mess around with much older versions of OS X. The iMac makes a cool little iTunes jukebox, too.
 
Ended 2014 with an Imac G3 ....starting 2015 with another Imac G3

Managed to grab another G3, it is a 500mhz model. All of a sudden G3s are appearing ! It did not hv a hdd, doesnt chime, no apple logo.... It ddnt set me back an inch! To top it...it was USD13.00 ++. I had to immediately transfer money to the seller, even before taking a look at the g3, coz a delay ........will cost me to loose it.

When i went to collect the g3, the owner mentioned about the amount of calls he received. Luckily i paid him first !

It wasnt given good care...scratches all over ! Guess ill treat this as a platform to learn to operate a G3.
 

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