What to do with my old iMac G3?

Okay well. I have an old iMac G3 which is well known as "El Crappo Macco" for quite obvious reasons. It runs Mac OS 9 (fine for some), 6GB hard drive, 129MB of Memory, 233mhZ PPC proccesor, tray loading model, blueberry colour. I tried installing Mac OS X 10.2 on it but the installation froze. Twice.

I don't want to get rid of it, but I want to use it for something else. I'm not that into upgrading it (don't have enough money, and those kind of things scare me ). I thought about turning it into a TV but i researched and found nothing, some kind of music station/CD player (thats pretty much all it can play anyway). Maybe i could somehow use it with my 2 other machines (eMac G4 and Dell inspiron 6400 notebook). It even crossed my mind to completely convert into a fish tank or something like that, but fish like to die one me alot. I researched using it as an external monitor so might end up using it with my emac.

If you have any other ideas for me they would be MUCHLY appreciated.

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10.2 should have worked with 128Megs RAM. Just not that fast.

Did you check to be sure the Firmware is up to date? If it is not OSX will not install.

I have a Bondi Blue 233 Mhz iMac G3 with 256Megs RAM. I have 10.3 Panther on it. Not really fast but useable.

Thanks, I'll give that a go. Because it was a reject from a university which had been in storage for four years so thats probably what it needs

That just might do it. You might want to put in a bit more RAM also. Those old Tray Loaders use Laptop SoDIMMS PC100. They will take 2x256 meg sticks. I also have a Grape 333Mhz Tray Loader and it runs 10.3 quite well.

make a imac aquarium out of it!

sell it....some extra cash..for the gas tank lol

I know your not into upgrading... but you could always swap the drive with another that already has OS X installed on it.

yeah that's a good idea, do you know where I could buy one?

you can buy one, just if you have a hard drive with OS X 10.x.x, just swap it with the one you have installed already