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| Just Got: Apple iMac G3/600mhz (Summer 2001) | |
| Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-03-03 12:53:24 Just picked this baby up, she is beautiful! I had the 400mhz SE when it was released, so this thing is awesome!!!! G3 600mhz 1gb Ram 80gb HDD Airport Card I think I might use it as a fileserver, is that a good idea?   | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-03-03 12:58:00 It's a good idea if you think it's a good idea. 😉 Biggest power consumption element on that will be the tube itself, but I'm assuming you'll sleep that most of the time. And congrats! | |
| Posted by: unity on 2015-03-03 12:58:28 Nice! And I love that color. | |
| Posted by: SuperToaster on 2015-03-03 13:20:34 I always loved the graphite iMacs | |
| Posted by: Schmoburger on 2015-03-03 13:26:49 Very nice! I have a graphite Summer 2000 DV SE 500 that I tore down to a chassis and rebuilt a couple of years ago. Such a mint looking colour! This is when it had just gone back together.  There is a fairly lengthy post on the blog detailing the tear down and rebuild here on my blog if that is something that interests you. 🙂 So, how are the speaker surrounds on it? | |
| Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-03-03 14:25:09 Yea the graphite is my favorite color! Speaker surrounds? you mean how is the condition?? Looks like she is in perfect condition. | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-03-03 14:26:07 He means the foam on the speakers, it is degrading? | |
| Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-03-03 14:37:55 OH! Gotcha, Yah I have no idea, would I need to open it up to see? | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-03-03 14:41:04 Well, you could play some tunes and see if it sounds terrible, or take a flashlight to the grilles and peek. | |
| Posted by: Schmoburger on 2015-03-03 15:07:30 Yep if heyre falling apart, the first time you play some fat tunes that push them to higher excursions they will start to crackle... The foam seems to just fall to pieces. I don't have a single iMac with two good speakers, which is a shame as they sounded great when they were new. 🙂 | |
| Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-03-03 15:18:02 I was playing some old favorites on it last night.. blasted it to full volume, sounded good to me... Quake 3 arena and Heavy Metal FAKK2.. 😀 I'll check it when I get home, didnt bring it in the shop today, think I might keep this one at home | |
| Posted by: LazarusNine on 2015-03-11 15:36:09 That's an awesome looking Mac. I just caught a glance at this one in the town I live, but I'm A ) "not allowed" to buy any more old Macs (*grumble*) and B ) not about to pay £45 for it. But maybe £25...No! http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=361230711971 | |
| Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-03-11 16:00:49 Yah not bad!!! What I really like about this unit is that it is SO quiet! You can barely hear the HDD working, but other than that.......silence... 😀 The airport card I put in it is garbage though... cant connnect to very many routers at all... | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-03-11 17:37:37 That's because the old AirPort card supports WEP or WPA only, and WPA is only under OS X. Most modern networks use WPA2 security. | |
| Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-03-11 17:39:52 Actually I am using an airport extreme router, and it has the ability to do WPA and WPA2 I believe. But neither seem to work... Actually I had it working for about 10 minutes, then it disconnected, and I couldnt get it to even SEE any wifi..... maybe the airport died.. lol | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-03-11 17:43:48 Is your router outputting 802.11b? Lol, it doesn't do G or N. | |
| Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-03-11 17:45:39 I am pretty sure the airport extreme router does abgn... but maybe ill need to refresh myself on its specs... im bringing another airport card home tonight and ill try that 😀 | |
| Posted by: LazarusNine on 2015-03-11 18:41:43 The Extreme does G; I'm quite sure of that. You could just have a dodgy connection/card. I've had a couple bad Airport cards over the years. I'll tell you, though, everything will seem easy compared to my hunting down a PCMCIA wireless card for my Lombard PowerBook. :O | |
| Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-03-11 20:03:17 Cant you get one from ebay for like 5$? EDIT: Oh does it have to be a special apple pcmcia card? | |
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