Note: The BIOS on the iMac does not recognize a partition larger than 8GB for boot. 2 USB, 1 modem, 1 Ethernet, 1 audio in, 1 speaker out, 1 headphone.
#BONDI BLUE IMAC PRO#
ATI Rage Pro Turbo video with 6 MB of VRAM.This system originally sold for $1200 in 1998. The monitor didn’t get a scratch, but the plastic is marred. When I moved a while back, I dropped it on some black top from about 2 feet. This particular iMac has some cosmetic damage to the plastic facia around the monitor. The built-in ethernet port made networking easy, something its windows counterparts were still struggling with at the time. This iMac also included the now infamous “hockey puck” mouse a fascinating design for a mouse but really awkward to use.
#BONDI BLUE IMAC MAC#
This was the first Mac to include USB ports and to exclude a floppy drive. The form factor of the All-In-One computer was also unique at the time. This was the first computer that Apple called iMac promoted as a new Mac for the Internet age, hence the “i” prefix. Clearly I must find more “fossils” out there to hear old Apple stories and purchase their relics.This original G3 Bondi Blue iMac is a glorious piece of personal computing history unique design, and a “first” in many respects. I have a Newton Messagepad H1000 and an eMate 300 in the museum. The wife was at the intro of Apple’s first laptop. We were at the introduction of the Newton. I’ve never even seen a Lisa and I had no idea QuickTime development started in the late 1980s! He had the team from Microsoft showing off DOS… Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
He was demonstrating what was to become the IBM PC. In my early corporate days around 1981 I sat in the back of the room for a demo conducted by Phil Estridge of IBM (he and his team died when a Delta jet went down in a storm on approach to Dallas. After being led deep inside a building we emerged into a lab and were shown what was to be called QuickTime. I was invited to Apple in 1986 or 87 to take a look at a new technology they were working on. My first encounter with Apple was 1983 testing the Lisa. I worked as a Cobol programmer for about a dozen years.
#BONDI BLUE IMAC CODE#
Short 10-15 lines of code subs to do a very specific individual task. I began writing assembler language small subroutines in 1974 on punch cards. He was at the event when Phil Schiller jumped to show that the iBook’s internet connection was wireless using Apple’s AirPort card. The single best computer theater I saw was when Phil Shiller jumped from a window above the stage to a waiting Steve Jobs to show the iBook was not connected to any wires. The best was in 1999 for the introduction of WiFi and the iBook.
#BONDI BLUE IMAC PLUS#
The most memorable aspect of being an Apple Reseller in the 1990s was frequently going to Macworld Keynotes (mostly in New York plus one in Boston). I sold a bunch of Bondi iMacs when they came out. This iMac is pretty early in the build cycle. Pick it up with a handle. Apple brought back the mentality that a computer should be approached not as a mysterious, heavy box, but as something you could simply pick up and move.īelow is the culmination of the email exchange I had with the iMac’s owner.Plug in power, plug in the keyboard and mouse, and plug in the modem. Simplicity was part of the Jeff Goldblum ad campaign showing off how easy it was to set up an iMac.There was no disk drive. If you wanted to move a file to another computer you were expected to use the internet.
USB and the ability to plug and unplug peripherals without restarting was the future.
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