Curbside Treasure?!? An IMac G3 Found On The Side Of the Road.

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I was test driving a car the other day when I noticed this blue lump sticking out of a large pile of trash by the side of the road. I decided to take a closer look and came across this vintage 1999 model Apple IMac G3 that was maxed out with 1 gig of ram and a 400mhz main chip.

This thing was SO nasty. It had been stored in a barn that held chickens for sure. As a result it was caked with funk and more funk.

Still, I took it home and cleaned it up. I figured it would smoke when I plugged it in but was surprised to see that it not only still works, it had even been upgraded to OS X 10.4

I'm not an Apple guy at all, but its been fun playing around with some vintage computer hardware and when I'm done, I can pass it along to someone else via the web.