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> Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One

Everyone knows that as the Molar Mac. They look like a tooth and were used primarily in Education. They were a decent if not hideous machine.

I learned HTML and JavaScript on one in 1998-1999. We had the option to spend study hall in the computer lab and I took it every time. I would spend an hour every day working on my Geocities site. Those were the days.

I would frankly just love to find one in decent condition to have for the memories, the transparent top grille seems to always be busted up.

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It was a toss up between eMac, iMac, and molar Mac for a few years, but eventually iMac won that race and seemed to be on top for years until laptops and chromebooks took over.

I had an eMac. It was lovely.

It's hilarious because the eMac line is long gone and almost forgotten, but people's iPhones still autocorrect "Emacs" to "eMacs", so its legacy still lives on.

I remember helping my aunt buy one of those—my memory is somewhat hazy, but I assume it because it was cheaper than the iMac G4, with a (physically) larger display.

Now the iMac G4. That was a computer. I realize that design wouldn’t scale to larger displays…and it barely scaled to that size of display, given the issues they had with the monitor arm…but oh man, what a machine for a computer lab. Set whatever angle and height you want, then just swing the whole monitor around to show a classmate.

The eMac has the best CRT screens I ever used. It was a Sony Trinitron tube, but better than the Sony monitor I had used on PCs

A tip I picked up from Gruber is if you want your phone to stop incorrecting you on certain words, add them to your Text Replacement dictionary (including capitalization variants). This works for certain choice words in the English language iPhones like to duck out on, but I got annoyed enough about the Emacs to “EMacs” or “eMacs” thing that I did it for that as well.

I did like the eMac though, had them at a school I went to.

Yeah, I got so sick of doing that on Android that I just turned off autocorrect entirely. Can you even do that on iOS?

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