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iMac Orange
/me 
I had a christmas lunch at my parent's yesterday. They kindly asked me if I was interested in keeping their old iMac (rev. B orange), long retired from duty and waiting in the attic. It never was "my" computer since I left short after they bought it in '98 and I already had my own Mac for a long time, but even though, I was happy to see that this old friend I often troubleshooted back then was still alive.
It came with orange keyboard and mouse, in pristine state, and with the original CD's, case and all.
It has the stock 6 Gb hard drive and 160 Mb of Ram (I remember when they asked me to buy and install the 128 Mb upgrade, by the way). I like to put my collection machines in their original setup when possible, so I partitioned the drive and reinstalled the original System 8.5.1 and bundled software from CD's, and put in a Mac OS X 10.2 on the other partition.
It goes along great with my orange Clamshell iBook on my desk! ;D
I had a christmas lunch at my parent's yesterday. They kindly asked me if I was interested in keeping their old iMac (rev. B orange), long retired from duty and waiting in the attic. It never was "my" computer since I left short after they bought it in '98 and I already had my own Mac for a long time, but even though, I was happy to see that this old friend I often troubleshooted back then was still alive.
It came with orange keyboard and mouse, in pristine state, and with the original CD's, case and all.
It has the stock 6 Gb hard drive and 160 Mb of Ram (I remember when they asked me to buy and install the 128 Mb upgrade, by the way). I like to put my collection machines in their original setup when possible, so I partitioned the drive and reinstalled the original System 8.5.1 and bundled software from CD's, and put in a Mac OS X 10.2 on the other partition.
It goes along great with my orange Clamshell iBook on my desk! ;D
Thanks for the offer!
Actually it's a 266MHz, so it certainly would benefit from the "zip". But I have to confess I'm the kind of Mac collector who doesn't use his conquests on a regular basis. I fire them up once in a while to play some game or have fun with them, but I tend to prefer having them in their original "out of the box" configuration when possible. But thanks anyway!
After using an iMac G3 as my main machine from Summer 2007 to Summer 2008 I can no longer look at them with the same affection as the rest of you. For all intents & purposes I'd find it fun to tie mine to the back of a car and see what happens.
edit: never ever seen that written out, go figure
edit: never ever seen that written out, go figure