Despite a mixed critical reception and unremarkable sales numbers, the iMac was a certifiable design success and set the course of a new aesthetic in personal computing-including the rise of translucent and colored plastics in the early 2000s-that is still recognizable today. It is accompanied by a keyboard incorporating numeric pad, round mouse and a power chord. Busytown’s a hotbed of Bondi Blue activity. The message just contained an address and a picture of a Bondi Blue iMac G3 lying in the dirt and grass. It had a maximum RAM of 256Mb and an ATI Rage IIc graphics card.
It had a tray loading CD-ROM, a USB keyboard and a USB mouse. It ran the G3 PowerPC 750 processor at 233Mhz and had 4Gb hard drive. The iMac was out-of-the-box ready it could be plugged into the wall to be used immediately and required no peripheral parts or connections, other than a mouse shaped like a hockey puck, a matching keyboard and an Internet cable. This first model iMac was known as the Bondi Blue iMac. MaLast spring, I got a text from my good friend, and frequent collaborator, Bryce from the band Midnight Notion. The original iMac was an all-in-one shipped in an entirely new Bondi Blue translucent plastic case. The idea was simple: the components of the central processing unit (CPU) were integrated into one cohesive unit (harkening back to early all-in-one Apple devices such as the Macintosh ( ), which was wrapped in a translucent white and aqua (famously called Bondi blue) shell. In 1998, just when we could no longer stand the beige box on our work tops, Apple came out with the iMac in. 7 The iMac (the “i” initially stood for “Internet”) was developed under the direction of Jonathan Ive-then a young Apple staff designer-and quickly became synonymous with sleek, sophisticated, and forward-thinking design. Aware of its potential power, Jobs and his team devised a device that integrated Internet-ready technology with high-quality graphics performance and a futuristic all-in-one shell. Having been at the forefront of the rise of widespread personal computing in the late 1970s, Jobs arrived back at the company at the beginning of the next significant innovation in consumer-oriented computing technology: the Internet. 6 In these beige boxes, Jobs saw an opportunity to reinvent the notion of personal computing and, possibly, save the company from collapse.
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Although Apple had long distinguished itself with superior graphics performance and a devoted following, by the late 1990s it was, like many computer companies, producing beige box devices that looked like every other PC on the market. 5 It was an auspicious return in many respects. 4 Jobs found himself in the unlikely position of leading the company for the second time in his career-he had been unceremoniously forced out of the company in 1985-when NeXT, a company he had helped start in the 1980s, was acquired by Apple at the end of 1996. 3 The release of the iMac would precipitate a reversal of fortunes for the company, which, under the direction of co-founder Steve Jobs, would once again begin to see positive growth. 2 These predictions seemed destined to come true until the introduction of the iMac on May 6, 1998. But the original Bondi Blue iMac (named after the water off Sydney’s Bondi Beach)and its successors in blueberry, lime, tangerine, strawberry, grape, sage, ruby, and indigohas finally had its. 1 Experts predicted that it was not a question of if but rather when Apple would go out of business.
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In 1997 Apple Computer, Inc., was steadily losing money and market share after a series of failed product launches, including its unpopular portable digital assistant device, the Apple Newton MessagePad. It’s likely from fairly late in the product’s development cycle, though, seeing how the design is near-final, and because 1998 is listed as the copyright date on the device.The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing There are stickers all over the device that denote how it had not been approved by the FCC for sale.
It actually resembles the iMac DV more than the original iMac G3. The plastic on the back of the CRT casing is completely transparent rather than opaque.
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Ken says that this is likely just a material used to make prototyping more affordable as it’s typically seen on other prototype Apple products. 32.00 ephemeraetc (273) 100 Buy It Now Free shipping Sponsored Vintage 1998 APPLE M2452 USB Wired iMac G3 Keyboard Bondi Blue TESTED Pre-Owned 45. It is similar to the color blue-green with a hexadecimal value of 0095B6.
This iMac G3 prototype uses different plastics from the shipping version. Bondi Blue is a color belonging to the cyan family of blues. Unfortunately, the unit doesn’t power on at the moment, but Ken says that he’s working with other tech YouTubers to repair it and make it functional. This particular prototype is quite different from the shipping version, despite bearing a similar resemblance. YouTuber “Krazy Ken” has posted a video on his Computer Clan channel where he goes hands-on with a rare prototype of the original Bondi blue iMac G3.
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