Apple’s Power Mac G3 Blue and White edition is 25 years old today. Here’s how it changed Apple -- and the entire computing world -- in a truly big way.

A self-described computer geek has revealed a previously secret "easter egg" image file buried in the ROM code of the 27-year-old Power Macintosh G3 that shows the team that worked on the project.

I remeber toying with the idea when the B&W G3 first came out. Sadly Apple where looking for over £300 for the case parts so I never bothered much after that.

Jony Ive and Jon Rubinstein, who led design and engineering, respectively, at Apple, in a March 1999 portrait. The iMac G3 was a monumental example of the "clear craze" that made tech transparent.

Well, a friend of a friend was getting rid of a non-working Power Mac G3. I brought it home and played with it a bit, and determined that the hard drive in it is dead.

It’s difficult to believe then, that the first Apple Mac to be designed with a USB interface was shipped without it; but that’s the case with 1997’s grey Power Mac G3.

This is the side panel of a retired Mac G3, and it has been transformed into a working wall clock using a USA made quartz drive movement. The clock measures 16”w x 16”h, and runs on 1 AA ...

The scope of the settlement is smaller than King & Ferlauto’s original suit; the firm had initially asked for the purchase price of the G3 system itself and the costs of Mac OS X 10.0 and 10.1 ...

But the iMac G3 — followed by its offshoots, the Clamshell iBook laptop and Power Mac G3 tower — ruled as a visual icon of ’90s tech, which saw everything from gaming consoles to point-and ...

Jony Ive and Jon Rubinstein, who led design and engineering, respectively, at Apple, in a March 1999 portrait. The iMac G3 was a monumental example of the "clear craze" that made tech transparent.