The G3 iMacs will never truly become collectors items. After all, they are awfully hard to stack a hundred and twenty to a pallette. }

If anything from the PPC onwards has lasting value to collectors, it will be because of the physical design of the machine. So the G3 iMac will be a candidate. The Quadra and earlier have a different type of appeal: the software available for it. There is a lot of unique software available for the 68k Mac simply because Apple spurred on an era of innovation through that quirky invention called a GUI.