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68kMLA Hardware 25 posts Jan 5, 2009 to Jan 12, 2009

#1 Mon, 5 Jan 2009 - 04:42 68kMLA

Hey, it's been a long while since I've had a real conquest. This is gonna be my first conquest of 2009 and my first Freecycle conquest. I had put a post up on freecycle saying I was after a vintage Mac. Lo and behold I get a reply from somebody in a town about 5 - 10 miles away, saying that she and her husband run a business and they retired a Mac that was used from about 1998 - 2003, and I was free to take it. She also said that they had older Macs in the garage and I was free to take any or all of them. I called to arrange a time and she was telling me that she was surprised they even still had them. Score!!!!

#2 Mon, 5 Jan 2009 - 09:47 68kMLA

W00t! My guess is you're going to score a Beige G3 - and good luck with the older gear too!

#3 Mon, 5 Jan 2009 - 14:44 68kMLA

He might get an iMac too.

#4 Mon, 5 Jan 2009 - 23:55 68kMLA

I feel really strongly that I'll get a late Beige PowerPC machine. If it's an iMac I won't bother grabbing it, as I only need about 2 machines to boost my collection. I'm heading over there in a few minutes and I'll be sure to get back to you guys about the big(?) score!

#5 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 - 00:28 68kMLA

Dammit... That's what I get for not watching Freecycle often enough. (Or posting often enough.) Lemme know if you have any spares that you might want to trade for some of my spares.

edit: My offer is because we're local to each other, in case you were confused.

#6 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 - 04:08 68kMLA

So what was the result of the raiding of the Garage?

#7 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 - 04:16 68kMLA

Well...

1 Macintosh SE 4MB 800k, upgraded hard drive to 30MB, very yellowed but runs quiet and smooth, System 6.0.7 and Finder 6.1.6b12 ( :?: ) Also, I thought I got something really good in the PDS slot but it had been emptied (it had a Radius Two Page Display cover)

and (you can't win them all)

1 Performa 6400/200, 136MB, 3GB HD and Mac OS 8.6 *sigh*

Good haul, I guess, it was worth the trip out there!

Also the Performa came with a booklet of CDs including Performa System Software, and Norton Utilities, which sorta rescued the zip disk that was failing (it still won't boot Mac Plus).

EDIT: In case this is a rare Finder I will be sharing it.

#8 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 - 04:19 68kMLA

Ah well. The performa is a nice machine and the SE is a nice compact. Too bad no G3 but it was free.

Maybe you can make a good server out of the 6400.

#9 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 - 05:05 68kMLA

The 6400's are hard to get into, but I really like their case style. It has a built in sub too.

#10 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 - 23:49 68kMLA

The 6400's are hard to get into, but I really like their case style. It has a built in sub too.

That explains the deep boom of a startup chime it has.

#11 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 - 23:53 68kMLA

The 6400/6500 machines are wonderful. The case isn't that hard to get into. :-/

#12 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 - 01:39 68kMLA

Nowt wrong with a free 6400!

#13 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 - 03:13 68kMLA

Too bad they did not have better RAM expansion. 2 slots with a max of 128 MB I believe.

#14 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 - 03:19 68kMLA

Unless you put a $20 Sonnet 7200 G3 PCI upgrade card in it [

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#15 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 - 04:26 68kMLA

Unless you put a $20 Sonnet 7200 G3 PCI upgrade card in it [] ]'>

Sonnet still sells cards?

#16 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 - 04:44 68kMLA

Too bad they did not have better RAM expansion. 2 slots with a max of 128 MB I believe.

136MB. You were close :beige:

#17 Thu, 8 Jan 2009 - 02:08 68kMLA

Sonnet still sells cards?

Hells yeah! [

] ]'> For sixty clams, you can have a G4 even.

Now that second slot - hmmm. Tempo Trio or better video? Decisions decisions.

If you can live with 136MB of RAM and a G3, the L2 cache slot upgrades can still be rustled up cheap on the bay, leaving you two PCI slots to play with.

136MB should be adequate for a MacOS 9 machine, unless you're working on huge Photoshop/video files. In which case, use a different machine.

#18 Thu, 8 Jan 2009 - 02:09 68kMLA

Lawd .... a 9500 with six of those G4s, and the appropriate kernel/driver hacks ....

#19 Fri, 9 Jan 2009 - 00:11 68kMLA

Actually, I believe this one has the cahche card. One PCI slot is filled with an ethernet card that won't be used. I have a spare Rage128 16MB card which should speed this guy up more. I might consider the G3 if it's toggle-able.

#20 Fri, 9 Jan 2009 - 04:52 68kMLA

Are you referring to the L2 slot G3? What do you mean by toggle-able? You mean you want to be able to switch between using the G3 and the original cache? Why? The G3 upgrade has a larger cache onboard than the original cache SIMM.

#21 Fri, 9 Jan 2009 - 23:57 68kMLA

I meant is it toggle-able between the G3 and the 603 processors, not caches.

#22 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 - 06:10 68kMLA

I guess I don't understand how ever in the world a situation would arise where you would prefer the 603 to the G3??

#23 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 - 02:58 68kMLA

^^ Ditto. Why would you want to?

And the answer AFAIK is no - the only "toggle" available is to pull the upgrade, unless you get really fancy with some kind of dual socket/multi-pole switch kludge

#24 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 - 11:49 68kMLA

Unless you put a $20 Sonnet 7200 G3 PCI upgrade card in it [] ]'>

Does this actually work in a 6400? I've heard it mooted but never actually read a success story.

#25 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 - 01:48 68kMLA

Ain't it amazing what using the search will reveal?

The Crescendo/7200 works in a 7500! DIMMs and all. It's all operative. Graphics appear to be accelerated too.

Click to expand...

all the RAM both on the motherboard and on the upgrade?? You wouldn't happen to have a 6500 you could try that out on would you?

Click to expand...

All RAM is recognized.
I have both a 6400 and a 6500 I can test it on.

Unfortunately the thread peters out about there - looks like Mike never completed that test - hint hint Mike.

But given the card works in at least one other off-label machine, I'd say why not?