Modified PowerMac G3 AIO

After picking up a G3 AIO for $10 at a yard sale. I decided to make this thing look a little better. I inserted a heat meter, LED's in the speaker's, CD button, volume button, microphone hole, and I changed the power LED. I also inserted a power button on the front. As you know the machine was originally white. Enjoy!

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Macintosh
• G3
• powermac
• modifiedG3

[atarian345]

How did you go about installing a power button? Can any computer power button be used to do that?

[1DaveyPocket]

I installed the power button by drilling a hole in the front for the button to fit in, and wired it up to the motherboard, which has a power button connector.(G3 AIO is the same as G3 desktop, but it just has everything in one). Any device or button can be used to power on as long as it's connected to the power-on connector and provides the signal to power it on.

[DarkBallYE]

Interesting. I expected the deeper startup chime. I was wronged by Mactracker, again. However, that's a good thing. I'm starting to get tired of the startup chime we have today. I wish we could have the lighter-pitched chime today.

I wish I could have one of those. It looks like a prehistoric iMac. Yet, it may have a better use with a floppy drive.

[1DaveyPocket]

I agree, I want some special sort of startup sound when they make the next Mac. They should have switched the startup sound when the went to intel. Even though this sound is quite relaxing, to me it is, it is getting a little boring.

[joshcj2006]

wat specs is it

[1DaveyPocket]

PowerPC G3 processor clocked to 300 MHz, 256 MB RAM, ZIP drive, floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, 4 GB Hard drive, Mac OS 9.1. Also has RCA input and output ports on the video card.

[madmax2069]

@iSquishy89 10.2 is a joke, install panther or tiger

panther and tiger needs to have a few things done in terminal to work correctly , if you don't you will find out that the onboard GPU is not fully supported and will randomly go into a unrecoverable sleep and the system will KP)

look up on google Apple documents article TA22360 for a fix. This also works for panther and tiger to fix the issue.

[madmax2069]

I have two of these, one is upgraded, the other is stock. upgraded specs G3 466mhz (CPU from a B&W G3) 768mb ram Belkin wifi PCI card Un named USB 1.1 PCI card. 120gb WD ATA HDD Pioneer DVR-110D (with modded authoring support file to enable burn support under OS 9.2.2) ATI Radion 7000 PCI card driving a external monitor (dual monitor mode) 4mb sodimm vram upgrade 56k modem add on for the personality card, wings personality card rom B rev 2 mobo. running OS 9.2.2 and OSX 10.4 tiger (xpostfacto)

[iSquishy89]

Why did you instal Mac OS 9.1 instead of Mac OS 10.2?

[DiskTwenty]

What a terrible paint job!

[hburke7799]

the holloween mac

[Avondalelily]

i so want one of these! i have an imac g3 with os 9.0.4

[kasm279]

@thecomputergeek100 Yeah it's the predecessor to the iMac. Also, any version of OSX is kinda pokey on the beige G3s and the original (tray load) iMacs. OSX has no graphics hardware acceleration because apple was too lazy to write drivers for the Rage LC and Rage Pro chips..

[kasm279]

@DarkBallYE Its got the older version of the Bong sound, MacTracker put the wrong one on the entire platinum G3 line :\

[cp6745c]

how fast is the prossesser

[DeltaPhi79]

The geeky voice gives the video a different mood than it would otherwise lol.