Huh. Funny timing. Looks like I now have the flashing red lights of death or it's just overheated. It turned itself off twice, I'll leave it for a while then try again.

Edit: turns out it's YLOD. Looks like I'll be picking up a 250GB on Monday. Only problem is that MAG is stuck in the YLOD'd PS3...I was able to turn it on for a few seconds after the first time it switched off, I should have used that window of opportunity to eject the disc.

I got my on December 15th, 2006, 60 gog for $600 bucks, yes it still works and gets played quite often. Actually, it did not play GTAIV when it first came out and Sony replace for free, still.

I got mine on ebay about a year after it came out for $170. Some guy was getting HDD errors and didnt know how to fix it. I added a 120 gig to it and it worked fine. Hasent bricked yet but I dont really use it except for PS2 games so I dont think it gets the stress that a Uncharted/Killzone level game would put the cell through.

bought mine july 07 it ylod last week its a problem with 60gbs and now starting to show on 40gb too

im debating if i should get a slim but have seen there internal and they use cheap thermal paste that is in the 60gb so idk

im currently tiring to reball the cpu and gpu on my 60gb fuck sony they want over 150$ and they reset ur ps3 meaning u cant put ur old HDD back and they dont even reball it meaning it will break again

Got it during the 2nd week of the US release. 

60GB version, now with a 320GB HD.

Still works like a pro.

60gb

Changed the Harddrive to a 320gb

December 2006

Still works great.

January 2008(or 7...I can't remember), PAL BC 60Gb, it must have cost $650 or so.
Still going strong. I renounced leaving it on for long periods of time (that is over the night) after I read here of the problems some people had with them.

I have a Japanese 60GB B/C Model that I got back in December 2006 I upgraded it with a 500GB HDD in January 2009.

It works perfect no problems I only use it for Games Because it is B/C I play a lot of Japanese PS Games and Japanese PS2 Games on it and watch Anime DVD/BLU-RAY on it.

I got my 60gb in June 2007 for 600$. I typically play FFXI, but god forbid I play ps3 games on it. Textures and graphics completely died out, lines and blur spots all over the screen. For some reason GoW3 has no issues on it though. Thankfully I got a slim for xmas =D

Australian launch ,  $1200 with 2 games,but i traded in 40 old ps2 games for it and  its still going strong.