My first Mac! (A classic).

[Hell Labs]

Year not great... Il keep an eye open for better ones. And get a CD drive at some point.

Anyone know a good forum for old Macs?

Some good sites:

http://www.macintoshgarden.org/ (lots of games, simpler than whdload could ever hope to be)
http://mac.org/ (old shareware and freeware)
http://main.system7today.com/ (a good site and forum for the older power macintosh)

There's more, but I can't remember right now. Have fun!

[Hell Labs]

Very good idea about the G3 upgrade card. here are the links to it:

400Mhz
https://secure1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_91&products_id=251&osCsid=9cf3a9fddde8fba4809de037adca9a3c

500Mhz
https://secure1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_91&products_id=235&osCsid=9cf3a9fddde8fba4809de037adca9a3c

at $100 plus P&P for a g3 500 you really have to ask WTF amigakit are playing at. I mean really, 68030/40 and a molecule of ram for a hundred and sixty quid? bugger off. :furious:


Pimp My Macintosh:

http://www.kaleidoscope.net

This is a bit like MUI, I suppose. Themes the os.


My suggestion is to get the 500mhz card, as much ram as you can, a bigger HD, fill it full of mac garden games, install os 9.1, classilla and the last os 9 flash player, and enjoy a computer that can do absolutely everything a modern one can do.

Web Browsing, IRC, MSN messenger, PHOTOSHOP (!), YOUTUBE (Double !), emulation of the 16-bits and below... I'm never gonna sell my iMac 400. If it breaks i'll buy another, but the first one will be put on display for all to see.