I saw this my neighbor's trash today:



I grabbed it and put it in the garage so I can take a closer look tonight. What would you have done? Is old tech like this worth anything to you? I plan on rehabbing it and donating it if it is not too far gone.

Good chance the analog board is gone, not worth fixing in that case. Even if it is working it's not worth donating. Too old to run any useful OS. Donating useful computers is a good thing, but an iMac that old is trash and would likely cost whatever charity disposal fees.

I do like old tech and have a fairly substantial collection of junk. However, I fully admit it's junk and only has value for interest's sake. iMacs are common and boring.

Thanks for the feedback. I remember the older iMacs and eMacs having issues with bad caps back in the day. Its going to be interesting to see if it fires up or if it is DOA.

iMacs of that age actually are pretty good for caps. Some can get cooked when the flyback goes, but they were made before bad caps really started showing up.

The later G4 iMacs and the G5s have big cap problems. I had to replace over 20 in my G5.

Took forever to boot but once it did it operated fine. 350MHz G3, 256 RAM, 6GB HDD and a scratched screen. It looks like it was stored face down on concrete. Now I am deciding what to do with it. I have some spare RAM and an extra HDD in the parts pile. Not really worth it if I can not replace the damaged screen. Kinda makes sense why it was out at curb side.

i have a purple slot load imac i got out of the trash a few years back, its a fun toy, its last use was as a terminal to remote desktop into servers

I've got that same iMac in my attic, I used to be an apple user so i got it to play some old (OLD) games from the past.