Mac G3
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
In March of 1999 I was in the computer market again. That’s always a problem when you’ve got friends that own Mac stores, but it was 4 years after my last purchase and a new battery for my PB 520 was going to cost more than the machine was worth and… Well, you know how it is when you’ve already convinced yourself…I had the funds for a Mac G3 Blue & White, code named Yosemite. It was a desktop… Ran at 300 MHz, had 64 Mb of RAM and plugged right into my 17 inch screen. It had NO floppy, NO SCSI, and cost about $1900.00. It was bold.
I bought it while Wife’s Dad (FIL) was in the USA. And not that it mattered, but I finally had a faster machine than he did! But, of course, FIL was up to the challenge, and came home to Switzerland with a very slick black PowerBook G3 (the Lombard with a “bronze” keyboard). It had a 14” screen in beautiful color, no ADB port, no floppy… But I was speechless. It was my dream machine. Out of our budget, but my dream machine.
