For her high school graduation, Nicole got a Flower Power iMac, which was a very rare Mac. It was only on the market for about 6 months. By the end of her college senior year, it was acting up. CD drive didn’t work all the time. It would power down. She got an eMac for her UGA graduation present, and at some point I refurbished the Flower Power to pass on to Fiona. Grant reports Fiona did not use it much, so it was eventually passed down to her Grandaddy.
Dad always liked his Mac better than his “Dell” (he called all PCs dells). But the power supply, fly-back transformer problem kept getting worse, and it could not be turned on for very long without powering down. Helping mom clean out the basement on Monday, I took the Flower Power home to prepare it for its last trip.
Today I backed up all data, zeroed-out the hard drive using target disk mode, and hauled the Flower Power off to the recycle center.
Where is the recycle center? Sounds like you had a kind of emotional attachment to the Flower Pot Mac. Wish I had been there to comfort you!