CD burner available for G3 iMac???

Hello fellow Charlotte person,
Check with Ebay. You can find internal CD burners for the G3 there as well. They are fairly easy to install.
Rachyl

I got an external FireWire drive from OWC (Other World Computing) for about $90 bucks. It says Neptune on it and can connect Firewire or USB 2.0. I use it with Toast & have no problem burning or reading disks. I haven't been to the site recently but I bet they still have models available that would work, or check ebay for same. My G3 is still on OS 9, though & I don't know how it would work if you are on another OS.

I have a LaCie extenal USB burner for my old 333Mhz iMac. Works great.

If you want an external burner, definitely go with FireWire - especially since your iMacs have FireWire ports. You don't want to settle for USB 1.1 (12 Mbps max), when you have the much faster FireWire bus to use (400 Mbps max). A few years ago, I bought a pair of Sony's external (FireWire) CD-RW drives (CRX-160e), for use with my G3s and iMacs. They work well with Toast Titanium 5 (compatible with OS 9.x and up to 10.1.x), and even with the slow (by today's standards) 12-8-32 speeds, they're more than fast enough for the computers' processing speeds. While the mainstream manufacturers have phased out production of external CD-RW drives in favor of external DVD±RW drives, some retailers catering to owners of older computers (like "Other World Computing") still package external CD-RW drives. You can always get an external 5.25" FireWire case and install an ATAPI burner of your choice in it.

I picked up a refurb Memorex USB unit at Geeks.com for $24 and it works fine with Toast 5.2 (it's slow, but it works).

Hard to beat $24.