On 6/10 Chris wrote: I happened to be cruising past the recycling area at my town disposal area Saturday and scored a tangerine-colored iMac someone had put out, keyboard, mouse and all. Apparently it had been slightly bastardized at some point - it has a 233 mhz G3 Rev A motherboard swapped in instead of the 266 rev B it should have, also no hard drive but otherwise fine; booted from an OS 9 CD without a hitch. I wondered when I'd start to see machines of this vintage (early 1999) being chucked - now I have my answer. I'll leave it at a place where I do a little consulting once I install a drive and it'll save me dragging my heavy old 1997-vintage PowerBook back and forth. This is a perfectly useful machine - has 192 mb RAM - I figure I'll install OS 10.3.4 on it and use it to write and to cruise the web. Hardly a scratch on the case, too. A bargain even after buying it an 80 gig drive and a 3-button mouse.