1998 Apple iMac G3 Bondi Blue 233Mhz - My First Macintosh!!!

Well at long last I've made another video! Sorry about the long delay, I have recently got a bunch of new computers so I've had much to play around with which means I was a bit distracted from making another video. lol

I hope you are excited about this one though as I am! Finally I own a Macintosh and I know what all the hubbub is about! What a cool little system! :D

[paincreatesfame]

Super lucky to have one of those machines nowadays, and in such good condition!

[WilliamShinal]

6:00 same here. When I heard of the original Macs nothing struck a bell until now. I was using Mini VMac to check things out. I used System 7 or six to play most of the games in the archives.

[Sutekh]

Nice finds!  Bondi Blue iMac was the first Mac of any kind I remember using, ~10 years ago in a school lab filled with various iMac models.  I very distinctly remember getting a crash course on using one of these things at the beginning of the school year, since I think just about everybody in the classroom had never used a Mac before.

[WilliamShinal]

When I leave for my stay with grandpa S, my kindergarten is so on the bucket list. I remember using it and being fascinated with it all. When I rediscovered this not too long ago, memories FLOWED! MEMORIES GALORE!!
Here's what I did on the thing: I used Tux, a painting program you may know. I also played some Tux mascot related games on there as well.

[lucasallakariallak]

I remember loving these computers back in the day. I would always use them in school. Listening to music a lot while on the internet doing school work with headphones on. And trying to download a lot of random DBZ video clips (It would take forever). I also played Command and Conquer for hours at school.

[robert]

Good find!! mine still has the door on the side, for some reason these were known to break off. but yep, got it, the keyboard, and that little hockey puck mouse from a friend before he moved, I don't power it up that much anymore, but it does work quite well. I think you will enjoy having yours as part of your collection. the second one might have been the result of a failed attempt to sell it in a yard sale.

[doctypepublic]

Nice G1 iMac! I am also a fan of Classic Mac OS.  If you run across a machine with System 7, it's pretty fantastic... probably my favorite flavor of Classic Mac OS.

I view this particular model as a transition machine, though... a blend of Jobs Era 2.0 and the Old World Macintosh. Another nice machine from this era is the Powerbook Wallstreet PDQ. It's got all of the power of the iMac in a portable form, and came out right around the same time as this machine. In fact, since you have the 233 iMac, the specs are yet higher on the Wallstreet PDQ; it came with a 266 G3 processor and 64mb RAM, with a maximum capacity of 512mb. Plus, it's WiFi capable if you install Airport and a PC card. It's a really versatile little machine.

[wildfoottv]

I remember using these in elementary school

[StimorolChewingGum]

I found several brand new-in-dvd-style box "Maxis Classics" versions of Sim Tower for PC last year. I bought one for next to nothing.

[LOLZpersonok]

I had a slot-loading iMac G3 with a 350MHz processor. It was a pretty cool machine, until it died. If I had the money, know-how and patience, I would have fixed it, but due to the nature of the failure (evidence indicates a dead PAV board) I just recycled it. Was sad to see it go, and would like to find another example.

[trevorbarksdale]

Perfect! Can't wait to install FL Studio on here

[GodsChaingun]

Warcraft 2 Battle.net Edition.  NICE!  I wonder if you can still log onto the battle.net servers with it.  Yeah older games look really good with older CRT monitors.

[Appleboy]

Damn. Just one month from now (posting this comment in April), the iMac G3 turns 20. Time flies

[queenanne]

I know Apple made a BIG DEAL about this being a USB only machine. But it was really to its detriment. One can't even lift word documents off this thing simply if its OS is pre OS X, WORD DOCUMENTS. I know this thing saved Apple probably thanks to marketing and fashion but Windows 98 had it covered in all honesty.

[louisedgar]

Lol I remember back in 2002 in the second grade they were teaching us how to use computers at the lab they all had mid 90s mac computers. Till one day our teacher told us about new computers they brought only for the front row (4-year-old model) and it was iMac g3 boy did every kid on the line was fighting to sit I had the chance to use it for 20 min it was awesome feeling till a son of a gun push me out of the dam chair and the rest is history.

[TranscendentalAirwaves]

Man I used to be so happy and optimistic lol

[pentiummmx]

can i put a fruit colors 266 or 333 mhz imac logic board in a bondi blue mac

[nitewing]

Not weird to use the "File" menu item "Quit" to close a program when you consider there is only one menu bar. Unlike Windows, which has a menu bar in each document window, Mac programs use only one menu bar. Because of this, you can't assume that closing a window should quit the program, since the program could have multiple documents open at the same time. Also, quitting the program when the last document is closed makes no sense when you realize a user might close a document and want to open another one. So the program waits for you to tell it to quit before it quits the application.

[Tore]

Heh I want to find a PowerPC Mac one day mostly because I want to try out the Mac version of Command & Conquer I have on real hardware. :P

[jaykay]

Coming from a non-Apple-fanboy, I hated these machines.  While I understand they had their place, it seemed to me that Apple was trying TOO hard to get the product out there.  Came in all those gaudy colors, though of course the Bondi Blue is the classic.

This machine (in my opinion) was the transition from the old Apple to the new Apple.  I have a lot of respect for anything older than this unit, but not so much after.  I think there were commercials on TV at the time, including a half hour infomercial on how easy the Mac was to use, complete with late 90s fashion styles.

They made a number of peripherals for these machines in the same colorways, everyone but everyone remembers the Epson inkjet printers in the Bondi Blue.  I actually have a Belkin USB 1.1 hub sitting here in Bondi Blue.  It has removable color shells so it can be color matched to your system, and they were stackable too.  Yeah, once the peripherals like that were color matched, I knew it was all over.

You should make a video of that alarm clock sitting on the table there.