To me, part of this is emotional. I loved my bondi-blue 233 rev B Imac, and only "upgraded" after Alladin's Spring Cleaning program wiped out part of my hard drive. Since the hard drive was so small, I upgraded to the last of the Motorola chip Imac's - which broke down under AppleCare before the 3 year term was up. It was then replaced under AppleCare for an Intel-chip IMac, which I am currently using. My original beloved bondi baby had 128K of ram added when I purchased it new from MacZones, which made it run really well for everything I did with it. It did run games that were not supposed to run on it, such as Bushfire, and I played Jazz Jackrabbit a lot, plus several other games.
My bondi baby did break down between years 3 and 4, and was fixed under the extended warranty that I purchased from MacZones - I have complained to Apple often that they should offer a long extended warranty, when I buy a new computer I want a relationship - where I know I will not have to buy another new computer for quite a while. I did have my screen set to do black after a few minutes, saving wear on the screen, and always had it hooked up to a good APC back-up UPS. I love these old babies - I still have a "imac" alarm clock from the day, and an original IMac "yum" poster on the wall - Dennis San Diego area On Jul 23, 4:18 am, Run Vzel <illo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Topic: G3/233 worth the restore? > > Yes and no. Get the parts for free, have time to kill, and yes. Anything > else, no. > > >> leo <artistic...@gmail.com> Jul 09 12:41AM -0700 > > >> I bagged an original Rev A Bondi-blue G3 off ebay to find it was worth > >> well less than their original asking price. > > Always pays to check out the COMPLETED AUCTIONS listings on eBay or a big > city's Craig's List postings to determine actual market value. In Seattle, > people GIVE these away. I just picked up FIVE in one day. Will make > excellent gifts for friends to give to their kids, etc. > > >> I could manage to > >> refurbish it, but I'm reluctant to spend any more money on it > > Good. Refurb it, but spend nothing. How? Ask for the parts on CL and your > local Freecycle group. LEM swap is a dim possibility, but a lot of folks > there sell the old stuff thinking they're supposed to make big bennies off > it. > > >> Screen image is off center and I cant find any adjustment > > It's a software adjustment in preferences. > > >> Hard drive is missing > > Then you don't have access to preferences because you don't have on OS > loaded. You need an HD with an OS loaded to muck around with adjustments. > I have an 80gb you can have for $40 plus shipping. Show me a picture of > your install disk to prove you're doing a legal install and I'll pre-install > your OS for you if you can't do that at home. That could be useful--read on > to see why. OR, you should be able to find 20 - 40 gb IDE units for free or > pocket change. Check out Freecycle, Craig's List, or your local computer > recycling depot. Almost any IDE drive will work, even ones from toasted > PC's. Just blank, reformat and install. Don't have a working Mac to rock > all that with? Borrow one. Again, check with listed resources. > > >> CD Drive is feeble, and spins up only if held pressed in, and the > >> computer doesn't seem to register the OS 9 disk once it does spin up. > > OK, so the optical drive is toast. Pre-install the OS on the HD you're > going to install via another machine (as I could do for you as mentioned > before, or as you can do if you have a spare HD and another CPU. Or, > perhaps someone would be willing to do that for you for free if you provide > them with your own HD), then change out the optical at the same time. Get a > new optical for free from the resources named above. Or screw the optical > drive once you have the OS loaded, and just use a USB drive. Or...dump the > whole thing and get a free Firewire iMac. > > Honestly, you want an iMac with Firewire to be halfway useable in the modern > world...you get target disk mode and the ability to load 10.4 with Firewire > and that makes a world of difference for internet use, iPod linking, etc. > etc. You want a free Firewire iMac? Pay me for shipping and packing and > two hours of my time and it's yours. Live in Seattle? Buy me lunch, tell > me some funny stories, and pick it up free. Or find one via Freecycle, > Craig's List, or your local computer recycling center or non-profit refurb > center. Seriously, I pick up free iMacs, iBooks and even Pismo's and > Powerbook G4's that way all the time--4 - 10 a year. All needed heavy > refurb but all made great gifts to deserving pals or needy kids. > > Run in Seattle -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
