Can I get a Dumpster Leader? Another free iMac falls into my hands…

[pRON aHOLIC]

Happy Dumpster Leader Day.

[Thrift Store Scott]

Ms. Jowct, did you ever know that you're my hero?

Dumpster Leader!

[RAMd®d]

Sing it, TSS!!

[Monster]

Trashy Leader!

that's one thing I miss about living in the city, all the good stuff I got from the trash.

[Silencio]

Nice score! Dumpster Leader!

[ka jowct]

[quote Donkey Hotay]I wish I had access to such a well-stocked dumpster.

Green-eyed-envy-LEADER!
The dumpster was full of debris from an apartment that someone is tarting up in an effort to believe they are not living in a classic tenement railroad apt. Tossing "Baby Blue" up on top of that stuff would have smashed him.

Now I'm feeling sad about the Bondi 233. It was my first throw-away iMac. It had a bad CD-ROM drive (with a disk in it that seemed to keep it from booting up), two sticks of RAM, one of which was either bad or wrong for the machine, and a botched VRAM upgrade that was held in place by a hunk of duct tape wrapped all the way around the logic board. The tape blocked a couple of ports. It must have been taken apart fairly roughly: the outer shell doesn't fit back in place with perfect alignment, and the big screw at the top in the back doesn't hold securely anymore.

I foolishly decided to fix it. It turned out that it couldn't see the less expensive RAM for this type of iMac, so I put the RAM upgrade on the back burner. I removed the duct tape, which meant that the VRAM upgrade no longer worked. I installed a working CD-ROM drive that I got on eBay. Then I got a decent deal on eBay for a 333MHz logic board with processor, VRAM upgrade and 32MB of RAM, and installed it, adding the working 32MB from the previous logic board. So it now has a whopping 64 MB of RAM (128MB using VM). I fired it up this morning to see if I had left anything on it that contained personal info, and am now feeling worse about tossing it out. It works very nicely considering its limitations. The monitor is in good shape, and using an old versipon of Mozilla, it's not bad at all for surfing (although I'm sure there are plenty of sites it would choke on). It's a shame that the first iMacs had no Firewire.

If anyone in NYC wants this little Bondi hallway rescue, let me know soon. I know that if I put it outside, it will end up being trashed rather than taken.

I'm posting from "Hallway" right now.

[Speedy]

You people are idiots for loving worn out iron. That being said, I rescue old Macs and give them to my kid's friends.

[SteveO]

Yeah, DL all the way, baby!

Donate the old one to an old folks' home or veterans home or inner city center or something. Just a thought.