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@thelballyt

5 жыл бұрын

Is this the iMac from Crashing Computers?

@0903251

5 жыл бұрын

@Atari Master Revision A and B had Bondi Blue. Revision C shipped with a faster processor and fruit colours.

@dvdbytes4348

5 жыл бұрын

@Atari Master Nah both A and B ran at 233 mhz. They have different video cards and can take different amounts of ram, looking at the video chipset is the only real way to check.

@CommodoreFan64

5 жыл бұрын

I would love to see OS 9 on here more then OS X.

@chowderwhillis9448

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone remember the game that came with the OG iMacs “Nanosaurous” that you played as a Raptor with a jet pack trying to collect dinosaur eggs??

The big difference between the Rev A and the Rev B is the video chip. The Rev A had an ATI Rage IIc, defaulted to 2 MB VRAM (upgradable to 4 or 6 MB). The Rev B had a Rage Pro with 6 MB. Because yours drops to "Thousands" of colors at 1024x768, *you definitely have a Rev A* with stock VRAM. Upgrading to 4 or 6 MB allows "Millions" of colors at 1024x768.

@WOSArchives

5 жыл бұрын

Yup that is the case. In fact, I own a Revision B iMac G3 which has the Rage Pro chip.

@nitrax8629

5 жыл бұрын

@@WOSArchives Does the Rev B also lack the Mezzanine slot like later models? Thought that got removed as part of the video upgrade.

@pentiummmx2294

5 жыл бұрын

Rev A: the original bondi blue, had the mezzanine slot, a rage IIc with 2mb video memory, an infrared port, and a 233 mhz g3 cpu. Rev B: improved from the Rev A with a Rage Pro that has 6mb video memory Rev C and D: They had the infrared port and mezzanine slot removed and had faster CPU clocks like 266 or 333 mhz and came in different colors like blueberry (blue), lime (green), grape (purple), strawberry (pink), tangerine (orange).

@RandoView

4 жыл бұрын

SimOFFICIAL: A and B are almost the same, only difference we're the graphics chips. A and B were both Bondi Blue Only, Rev C being the 5 flavors (strawberry, tangerine, Lime, blueberry, and grape).

@fanman8677

4 жыл бұрын

also it has the eject cd not slot loading

Risky click of the year opening a teenage boys Internet Explorer and repetedly hitting the address bar.

@ComputerClan

5 жыл бұрын

I doubt this computer was owned by a teenage boy. What sort of teenager is compiling referendum reports and budgets?? Haha.

@dialupdave6276

2 жыл бұрын

@@ComputerClan one who's deep into white collar crime.

@john-paulhunt2604

2 жыл бұрын

AppleScript. Back then, that forum moderator didn't even know what an.exe or .bat file was back in the day as its apple's version of that!

I might very well be the only person on the planet who actually liked the puck mouse and found it very comfortable to use.

@sloppynyuszi

5 жыл бұрын

Ast A. Moore you weren’t. I went out of my way to buy it for my iBook. The colors didn’t match though.

@ArnoLouwagie

5 жыл бұрын

I also find it pretty comfortable to hold for some reason. I still don’t understand people actually ‘hate’ it lol.

@TheJunky228

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArnoLouwagie I used to rest my and against the mouse a bit as I held it and always ended up accidentally clicking it

@Krzrrazrrokr

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't all that bad. Not the best mouse I ever used but not the worst. I wish it had a scroll wheel though

@stephaniethebatter7975

3 жыл бұрын

Probably not that much different to Windows mice in terms of shape and comfort. But not having right click or a scroll wheel really sucks. But hey, laptop users know this problem all too well, and we tend to compensate with Up/Down and Page Up/Page Down/Home/End leys.

I never owned one of these but my school's computer lab had them when I was in high school. I used to love playing around with the text to speech voices.

I remember when my college bought tons of these and put them throughout the school. No one knew how to use it. Fast forward now a lot of people are Mac Users.

Watching this made me wanna dig out my ole Bondi Blue G3. thanks for this one, Ken!

I've got the Grape model. Got it free back in '05 or '06 or so (might have been earlier). It's still alive and kickin'. iMac won't restart/turn off? Yank the power. Works every time.

@Hanhistoliitto

5 жыл бұрын

I did that once (didnt know about the restart button at the time) and i saw sparks under the CRT. Scared the shit out of me.

This is the first computer I remember really well, probably got me interested in the computing field! Nanosaur! MDK!

@john-paulhunt2604

2 жыл бұрын

No, I'm not Steve Jobs, you UFO tinfoil hats online drunk on Infowars again!

Geez seeing this thing again brings memory's of a cold winter Christmas. Not in a bad sense but just because it was a 90s time.

The computer clan is so underrated. this channel deserves at least 1million subscribers.

Been watching a heck of a ton of these episodes and I’m absolutely loving them! So cool to see an episode about the iMac G3 which is exactly the same I had as my first Mac! :D

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome! Thanks for watching. It is bingeable show! Haha.

@andi

4 жыл бұрын

Computer Clan I have to say it certainly is, thank you for creating all this splendid content :) Btw, have you done a tour of your studio/recording set?

One surefire way to tell is to try to boot 8.1. If it's a Rev. A it will boot, if it's a Rev. B it will not. :)

Found this from YT recomendation, I really love your channel, wow that's amazing.

@ComputerClan

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you : )

TIL Sosumi comes from "So Sue Me", lmao

@thescreemregular5168

3 жыл бұрын

Sosumi kinda sounds like "So Sue Me" lmao

This was so cool...kudos to you for taking very good care of this machine. It looks brand new. 😊

Those old backgrounds really brought me back to when I was a wee little boy watching CC aspiring to get into Technology.

@ComputerClan

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah… you’ve been around a while : p

I have a iMac like yours with a slot loading drive . I’ve been online with it at Mac repository and a message came up your actually browsing this with a old Mac we salute you

@ComputerClan

5 жыл бұрын

That's beautiful.

Pajama Sam, that brings back memories. I had one of these as a kid too. My uncle was really good with computers. He was able to get an SNES emulator w/ Link to the Past, and a legal playstation emulator from back in the day called the Virtual Game station. I remember playing bugs life and nascar 98 on it. Time flies.

I had one of these, a friend bought one at a yard sale for $1.00! It worked great!

I don’t know why I’m mesmerized by this video...can just go to the basement and boot up mine. Great job Ken!

“We were too dumb to realize you could save” Exactly what I think when I remember my kindergarten days playing “Go Diego Go” for Nintendo Wii.

Dig the camera work. Good to see so many of these little guys still functioning. If only I could get my IIcx running.

also what was great about crts is the resolution capabilities. if I lower my resolution to 720 on my LCD panel it will be blurry, but on a CRT it remains as sharp as it should

i've got a 2006 imac, and i LOVE the speakers on that thing. They just sound amazing.

@Krzrrazrrokr

3 жыл бұрын

They're amazing on my 20 inch 2009 imac too.

In 2001 I was 14 years old and was just starting my second year of junior high school... Our "computer lab" at the time was filled with all Ruby iMac G3's, to this day I have no idea how or why they had them... I remember being fascinated with the design and still vividly remember I was the only person in the entire class day after day who simply loved the small "puck" mouse. I still love it. I can see why it wasn't for everyone though.

I remember my parents buying this as a kid, and the first time I got to see it my sister was playing Nanosaur on it, and it ran great.

Ohhhh man I didn't even know I played this game back in the day but that intro brought back hella memories.

@stephaniethebatter7975

3 жыл бұрын

Whichever game you're talking about, you can look it up and download it.

First personal computer of its time to come without a floppy drive. *GASP!*

If the model number is M6709LL/B then it is a Revision B model. If I remember correctly the revision B models shipped with an ATI Rage pro graphics chip and 6mb of video memory as well. I am currently in the process of upgrading my G3 revision DV (Strawberry) to Panther and then onto Tiger

Among the many computers that have crossed my path over the years, among them were 5 Macs, 4 of which were PowerPC models. One was a broken clone machine that I couldn't get working due to my nonexistant knowledge of old PSU standards at the time(I could fix it now if I still had it), but following that was one of these 1st gen iMac G3s. It wasn't very powerful, but it was a competent thin client for my home server(admittedly said server wasn't a powerhouse itself, but it was a great deal faster than the Mac), and its screen made document editing a breeze!

I have a magenta iMac G3 1st gen and recently it succumbed to illness. When I got it back in 2012 it had issues and I couldn't fix them but when it worked it was a blast from the past. I will one day fix it as long as I can scavenge working parts.

Getting an error type 10 was deadly. An application probably attempted to address an unprotected memory space that was being used and 💥 Paper clips were mandatory components during the Mac OS System days. Knowing how to manage Extensions was crucial to supporting Macs in ‘90s era IT departments.

@NoaeDoesStuff

2 жыл бұрын

wow didn't know that

I had the 2nd Gen Purple iMac and loved it so much I got 2 more! I gave this one to my youngest Daughter while my oldest got a 3rd Gen blue one, while I then got the G4 Flst screen iMac!

Yup. My community elementary school back around 97-98 got new computers in every class room. Our small computer lab (maybe 18 computers) we’re all iMacs. I was probably in third grade at the time. But my school replaced every one of those iMacs within a year or two for whatever reason. Probably because we used to love stealing the puck mouse balls. Lol. But I remember being one of the first classes to use these new computers. They were quite user friendly off the bat for a young kid like me. I remember the see-through green and clear monitor and mouse. I believe the keyboard was concave in structure. It was super cool.

This computer and Bugdom, have a special warm place nestled in the farthest regions of my heart.

man, this a blast from the past! that orange / green power light...

Reminds me of my collage days I loved using the G3.

I recall one of the changes between rev A and B was the ability to hold down the power button to shut it down (on crash, etc). Where you held down the power button and nothing happened is a good indicator of a rev A.

One of the early Intel iMacs had very powerful speakers. When I was younger the startup sound used to freak me out cause it was so powerful

@ComputerClan

5 жыл бұрын

I have an early Intel iMac. It is nowhere near the volume of these G3 speakers.

You can check the date (sticker is behind the I/O door). If it’s built after October 1998 it’s a rev b. You can always check out how much vram it has as well (rev a= 2 MB, rev b= 6 MB) At least that’s what I thought.

just picked up a used one today, in perfect shape, running 8.5. trying to find the firmware update for it so i can upgrade it to 9.22, great video thank you!

PAJAMA SAM WAS MY CHILDHOOD. I still have yet to find all of Sam's socks.

@computernostalgia6293

5 жыл бұрын

stevey500 same

@stephaniethebatter7975

3 жыл бұрын

That computer looks like it may have Kid Pix, because of "The Learning Company" folder. Kid Pix was my childhood (Studio 4 Deluxe in particular). And you can get that version of Kid Pix here: www.myabandonware.com/game/kid-pix-deluxe-4-cm9 which even works in Windows 10. On that note, you can buy Pajama Sam on Steam, as well as other games that may have been your childhood, such as Putt-putt and Let's Explore the Farm/Jungle/Airport. Hope this information helps.

Just the other day I took my tray loader iMac G3 out of storage the and it runs great. I still have the MacSoft versions of Tomb Raider, Doom 2 and Prince of Persia and honestly everything just feels right playing those games on good old OS 9.1 nothing beats that trinitron display.

That Mac will be worth a lot in the future due to the shape of the cd tray. Hold on to it

I worked on a lot of these back in the day. I was on an old powerPC 6400 back in high school w/ mac OS 8.6.1. My best friends mother was a teacher at the elementary school I went to and they had just gotten iMacs in every room. But the teachers didn't use them because they were all crashing. Problem was that they where all on mac OS9 and it loaded all the extension, most that were not needed and they were really slow because they maxed out the ram and were running on virtual memory. I went room by room and turned off the virtual memory and de-activated all the unnecessary extensions and none of the teachers had any more issues. I got a lot of community service credit hours to help with college that year.

i have a tangerine one which starts but does not give any image, no startup chime just four short beeps. What can i do?

The best 'built-in' speakers on any Mac ever would have to be on the 20th anniversary mac. That had a great built-in audio system from Bose with a separate subwoofer. It easily rivaled small HiFi systems for volume and sound quality. The company I worked for in the late 90s had one as a display machine in the front office. We often used the built-in FM radio.

I just got a G3 from 2002 or 2003 for Christmas. 500MHz, 384MB of RAM. I think the poor puck mouse gets ridiculed more than it deserves LOL. I actually like it! Cool system, Ken!

I remember when they were introduced. Had to have one. Got one new in I believe 1999. Installed SoundJam (Apple bought it & renamed iTunes). Used the FAX a lot. Played Nanosaur & arcade games: Zinna's Pinball & Firefall. Tinkered with Kai's PhotoSoap editing software. OS 8.51 would sometimes freeze & I kept a straightened gem clip nearby to restart. Used OS 9.04 & iTunes with a VERY slow Que 2X external CD burner. I have a lot of fond memories using this IMac!

@stephaniethebatter7975

3 жыл бұрын

If you want to see those old games and programs, look 'em up. You will be surprised.

My first experience with this computer was in my high school’s Mac computer lab. They got a bunch of these and some G3 workstations. We used them for...typing

Pajama sam on an iMac G3. That is some tasty nostalgia right there.

hi ken, it as about time for KKTM, always keeping an eye for these since they're so fun to watch

@ComputerClan

5 жыл бұрын

I appreciate it, but… “about time”?! There was one last week!

@TheA_Gamer554

5 жыл бұрын

also 14:02 ITS BEEN

@TheA_Gamer554

5 жыл бұрын

@@ComputerClan i know, there's one every week but the week feel sooo long to me xd

Awwwww this brings me back, this was my introduction to Apple!

3:20 “doors weren’t a long lasting trend” iCar: removes doors in 2nd generation

I still have mine 💯 percent complete with original box and foam dam thing is huge

I love you're retro videos! great fun

@ComputerClan

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you : )

@john-paulhunt2604

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, captain's log meme.

Ultimate Mac experience was that I had a Bondi blue, while living a few hundred meters from the ocean water it was named after in Bondi

If you want to get this online, Classilla is the most likely way to view anything. IE5 won't have modern https support. System Profiler may give you more info on the revision. You're thinking 'Option' at startup. Avoid 10.0 and 10.1. More memory will definitely help in OS X--it can go up to 512MB. The iMac speakers are great until they deteriorate and rattle, though that may be more likely in the later revisions.

The good days of using our Windows 95-98 desktops and Imac G3's/G4's on Myspace. Also "Unreal Tournament" UT99 was the big game of the 2000s.

The further back you go with computers, the less sleep or 'standby' mode actually puts your computer to full sleep. The fans stayed on for Wintel PCs in standby mode as well, back before the ATX standard. Your iMac was definitely asleep when that orange LED was lit.

Will you upload a video where you install the voodoo 2 in the mezzanine port?

I love old iMac os so much

is there a way to mount PS1 ISOs in Mac OS 9? tried doing this with various softwares, but it doesn't work. PC games mount, but not PS1 ISOs, they just give memory errors, even though there's more than enough memory. trying to use the PS1 emulator, connectix VGS, which will only read physical discs. unless there's a device out there that pretends to be a CD drive (usb based), that allows ISOs to be internally mounted and tell the Mac that there's a physical drive with a disc in it, but it actually being something like a flash drive mounting an ISO, I don't see there being any other way unless someone out there can figure it out. What do you think?

Oh the nostalgia of pajama sam! I played that game so much was I was a kid on a blueberry G3 iMac!

@pentiummmx2294

5 жыл бұрын

i played pajama sam on a mac, but on a Performa 5200 all in one with Mac OS 8.5.

@stephaniethebatter7975

3 жыл бұрын

You can still get Pajama Sam on Steam. It is a game you don't have to miss!

Never in my life have I seen that bomb popup's restart button work. EVER. And I was using Mac OS classic since 1990

At 22:42 in an Apple menu sub menu, I see OpenDoc Stationary. Did you ever make use of that?

@ComputerClan

5 жыл бұрын

I breezed right by that. I may look into that for a future episode.

i was at a forfeiture auction once in like 2012 and there was a lot of 15 of these in different conditions and i really regret not bidding lol

I wanted to play Nanosaur so bad! That was my favorite game by far on the iMac!

@stephaniethebatter7975

3 жыл бұрын

You can get Nanosaur here: macintoshgarden.org/games/nanosaur I think there are other versions of Nanosaur, including an iOS/Android version, you can look them up.

It is indeed so beautiful!

I remember the imac G3 during in my elementary school during the 5th grade. Now I'm 34 years old damn I had fond memories. I think it's in 2000/2001 I don't remember.

I miss these old style videos, I liked them more.

Hey Ken, just letting you know I had this first GEN iMac (well, was like 7 so, my dad got it for us as a recommendation from a bass player friend who is a super Mac user and could get us any software we wanted …) but - yeah , ours came with an adapter for the mouse to be longer straight from the Apple factory! I still have it in fact. However I took it off of the mouse because this having been my first computer, I took quite a liking to the original puck Mouse because that’s really the only way I ever knew it, we didn’t use the adapter really until later probably when I was re-setting up the iMac a couple years ago …yeah , the refresh rate, the speakers, the ram I upgraded to I think 256mb… it’s a really great machine. Also had an eMac that was a workhorse too. I mean it was i think 733 mhz…but I’m pretty sure this iMac has 333 mhz, the same speed that the PSP I hacked immensely and taught me about so much more programming stuff…had..in like 2005! Anywaaaay Thanks for the video!

One of those was my first Mac!

iMac G3's had trinitron screens, 100+hz it's a crime they didn't make consumer TVs with the same tech back then. They had the ability to broadcast higher than 60Hz easy, but didn't because standards, right? And the human eye myth? (cough 144hz TVs today). Anyway, the G3 was a masterpiece. I inventoried an Apple store at the mall one day, and my crew members were all playing on the Macs. I noticed one bondi blue was running OS X and photobooth. I wish I knew what webcam they were using because the image was perfect. No distortion, no slow down, no pixelation. It was quite an experience. I remember wanting the whole setup very badly -_- I do have the Mac now, decades later... setting it up for the nephews and nieces, but I wonder which webcam to use for that same flawless experience? Suggestions? As for revision folks, if you pick one of these up, go for a Rev B. They're better and they're still the original Bondi Blue. Rev A would be for collectors. Rev B is the one you can play with without slow down. Diablo 2 worked pretty well.

I just got a free green first gen today with OS 8. worked perfectly

It's a great system even with the moving bar.

That was awesome. Your music is good too. Those speakers are great but unfortunately later iMac G3s used self dissolving speakers. After a while they literally disintegrate leaving the speaker cone and a bunch of black powder that used to be the suspension. I have seen it quite a few times in various iMac G3s. I used to love the quicktime demos from way back. That one with the sunset and beach that you loaded up was interactive. You can click on the water and make waves, IIRC. Cool stuff.

What was with the power button on the keyboard?

Revision A models have an IrDA port on the front as well as an ATI Rage IIc. Also the CD drive isn't seated correctly as there is a spring arm on the inside that latches on the top of the drive. Also to boot into Mac OS X from Mac OS 8.x you need to copy the Startup Disk control panel from Mac OS 9.2.2 and then select the Mac OS X volume.

19:41 why are there picture1 picture2 and picture3 files from 1956?? im curious

Why didn't you boot into osX? Back in 08 I used a 2nd gen running 10.4 for over a year lol

Not gonna lie, in elementary school school I REALLY liked the hockey puck mice.

I was thinking only rev B had the paperclip restart hole on the side?

This Is Epic!

I would not say that the tray loading models have the best speakers but the slot loads have really good ones

I'm trying to recreate an experience I had when I was inventorying an Apple store back in the early 2000s. They had the G3 setup with OS X, a camera and photobooth (with wacky filters). It was pretty cool. Might you know which usb cam I can use for oh say, bondi blue 350MHz (slot loading). Otherwise what other cam can I use on a G4?

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not familiar with USB cameras that will work with the Bondi Blue. Are you sure it wasn't a FireWire camera???

This computer was my kind of first computer in grade 1

I had a HP Vectra from 1996 with integrated USB 1.0 :) So it was definitely not the first mass produced computer with USB.

@ComputerClan

5 жыл бұрын

How many Vectras were sold, though? The iMac received 150,000 pre-orders before shipping even started. I have a feeling the volume of the iMac was much greater-making USB more mainstream.

@andrewcool4548

5 жыл бұрын

It was.

I have a first generation revision b iMac and I remember that it was a blue color kinda like the one you have but more of a blue. It had I think Mac OS 8 and I had all kinds of games for it, although I don't know where the actual CD's went so I'm kinda bummed on that. The slot loading optical drive had a lot of problems ejecting discs and sometimes I couldn't turn down the volume on the computer so I had to put towels in front of the speakers. Good times.

Ah the memories was sophisticated tech back in 1998

Love old iMacs

Ooh, that's cool.... Where the Hell have I been my entire life?.....I really want to play with that now!

This channel is underated

There it is! There is my original iMac.

I have an orange one xd still working fine but don't know what to do with it

If you're still wondering how to find out which revision it is you'll need to look at the analoge board. If it is green it's the first revision, if beige it's the second. The analog board is the one opposite of the power board

This is so cool!

I really want one of those to mess around with. They're so aesthetic!

i still have one ... like it