Tutorials

The iMac G3 came out while I was still in school. However, it was at the tail in of my school life. So What makes the vibrate colored Vintage Apple computers so special? People Loved their colors and freedom to choice the one you liked. My personally favorites are Grape and Lime Green. I never got to Play with one when they first came out, but a few years down the line I was buying and selling them. I would get them cheap on the used markets and sell them after fixing them up.

The issue today is most collectors that get these have issues with the built in CRT. The flyBacks or CRTs fail. Right now replacing Those parts isn’t to bad as the there were many iMac G3’s made and sold. So why would I replace a perfectly good iMac Lime Green CRT? Well I have two reasons. First there was no walk through or tutorial on how to do this. Second The CRT draw a lot of power. So the power draw can be Taxing on the overall iMac G3. By removing it it will help to give it a longer life. This also makes it so the CRT and flyBack are not being used thus saving those too.

I have experienced first hand how Vintage apple collectors get upset about this being done to Collectable iMac. So here is the thing These mods are 100% reversible and do not in any way affect the iMac G3. In fact all changes will help to give it a longer life as it will run cooler, and have less energy taxing to the Power Supply PCB.

Some things to note the LCD on the front isn’t happy as the board doesn’t detect the CRT even though the PCB’s for the CRT are in the system. This has to do with the parts not being powered up. The reasons they are in the system is so that the Power Supply PCB will power up. Here is the Link to the youtube Video about this Project.

Here are a few more of the work in progress pictures.