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It was just a matter of unplugging it, setting it face-down on a towel or something, unscrewing the compartment cover, inserting the memory, and then putting the door back on.

Not on the Rev A it wasn't. :) You had to remove a plastic panel on the back, unscrew the video & power supply cords, remove the screws holding the chasis to the monitor, pull out the chasis, remove the cpu cover, and add your memory. If you wanted to upgrade the existing 32 meg chip that came with the computer, you also had to take off the daughter card. Some of the early iMacs had plastic clips to hold in the memory that were easy to break off as well, making the slot rather useless. Some pictures and instructions here.

No. The empty slot just a redundant part on a re-purposed motherboard. Does nobody remember the notorious "mezzanine" mystery header on the original iMac?

Sure. You could plug a Voodoo 2 card or a SCSI card into it. It was sweet-- at least until big bad Apple removed the slot from the Rev C's.

No. The empty slot just a redundant part on a re-purposed motherboard. Does nobody remember the notorious "mezzanine" mystery header on the original iMac?

Sure. You could plug a Voodoo 2 card or a SCSI card into it. It was sweet-- at least until big bad Apple removed the slot from the Rev C's.

But atleast we had the trusty iMacFloppy.com to help us! read more here... but don't got to iMacFloppy.com - its become a domain squatters paradise.

http://www.theimac.com/info/graphics_2002/top_grap hic_left_side.jpg

Now which one is cool?

Plus, a 19-inch laptop is still a keyboard+monitor and can be much better looking than the new iMac.

No, they are probably just revisiting a proud moment in Apple history, the classification of the new Powermac G4 as a weapon too dangerous to export to certain countries! Here is how Apple informed the public.

Here is more detail on this story.

Yup. The 3Dfx voodoo2 card (MicroConversions GameWizard) I installed in the mezzanine slot really extended the life of my computer. It's a shame Apple dropped it from the Rev.C onwards (IIRC). Maybe the company wouldn't have gone bust and we might even have had up-to-date drivers for it. Yeah, in my dreams...*sigh* :-P

RTFM.

...my iMac (revision A...

The Rev A iMac doesn't have FireWire ports. Unless you know something we don't, FireWire isn't an option.

For external options, there's SCSI and USB left. USB sucks really hard for CD-RW drives. My girlfriend bought a QPS Que! drive for her Rev B iMac. Besides being a horrible company, their drive is shit too, but some of that I fear has something to do with the speed of USB.

SCSI may be an option, see this. I'm not sure how easy these SCSI cards for the mezzanine slot in the Rev A and B iMacs are to come around anymore. My girlfriend has a Voodoo2 in her iMac and it works great. A USB-SCSI converter wouldn't be advisable.

I've seen an *internal* iMac CD-RW model or two, but they were pretty spendy. I'm told they they were kind of flaky too. I think your best bet would be to have an external enclosure.

From the Apple site, the official step by step how-to, complete with illustrations. theimac.com has a photo version for top and bottom slots. They say the max is 192 MB (circa 1999).

You may also want to look at the developer notes (links via frame seem broken, use ones in doc), since there seem to be different DIMMs, depending on the model. Hope this helps.

From the Apple site, the official step by step how-to, complete with illustrations. theimac.com has a photo version for top and bottom slots. They say the max is 192 MB (circa 1999).

You may also want to look at the developer notes (links via frame seem broken, use ones in doc), since there seem to be different DIMMs, depending on the model. Hope this helps.