Hey Terry,
the plastic tabs were very brittle and crumbly
Usually like I said only the gray parts especially those covers on the screws on the front outer bezel and the upper shell. Do you "hit up" on the upper shell when you remove it. Email me and I can walk you through that.
I didn't realize how much I like these G3 iMacs till I dusted off my original Grape DV 400 with DVD
That's what I've found too. Especially playing DVDs on a 400 (not to great at streaming video). As some already know I gather, restore, upgrade and repair computers near Chicago. These computers are then donated to schools in the inner city. These are typically high needs schools. Many have no computers at all!
The iMac in particular is very desirable in these situations:
a) It has a small footprint and is self contained.
b) I have a large amount of educational software that I load them up with.
c) The kids love them. I have seen iMacs get hugged. I never see that with any other computer.
Most of the children who are at these schools have no computers at home. In cases I'm working with now this is true for all of the children. The ones I donate provide the first hands on experience they have ever had.
I find the 400-700 great to work on since they have FireWire. I often swap the logic boards from these with bad PAVs into working 350s. (got 5 working 350 boards in storage) The only issue I've found doing this is that the heat sink is placed differently in the 600 but it's easy to move a 350 heat sink since it's screwed to the divider panel. Not sure about 500s or 700s.
Richard
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