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Performa 400 68k 14 posts Jun 11, 2007 — Jul 20, 2007
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#1 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 - 23:26
Good morning,

I am still looking for a colour machine that can run system 6. I've noticed that the Performa 400 is really an LC II wearing a false moustache. Apple's specs say that it cannot run system 6, but then it says that about the LCII as well (yet apparently that model can). I suppose they're exactly the same model, but the Performa 400 was released about a year after, in September '93 - I'd be somewhat surprised to find that a machine released that late still ran 6. Anyone happen to know before I buy it?

Thank you [8D]

#2 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 - 23:39
To my knowledge, they have the exact same mobo, just set to a different Getstalt ID, so there's no reason that 6.0.8 shouldn't work on it, and even if it doesn't work, you can use a program like Wish I Were to change the Getstalt ID to that of an LCII, and it'll be a proper, ridgy-didge LCII.

#3 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 - 23:41
Hooray! ;D

#4 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 - 23:46
Btw, if you need a copy of Wish I Were, and can't find it on the net (i'll check gamba), i can hook you up.

#5 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 - 23:50
Here ya go

Thanks to Gamba.

#6 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 - 23:57
Hooray! ;D

Thanks mate [8D]

#7 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 - 04:43
Correction--the P400 was released in September 1992, not 1993.

#8 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 - 05:21
Then Low End Mac is wrong. According to them, they were only sold for one month!

#9 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 - 07:10
LEM (was it under DK's byline?) seems to have a grand contempt for the year portion of dates. The 512Ke had a brief career also, according to LEM.

de

#10 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 - 16:34
I've seen A LOT of books, sites, etc. get the 512Ke wrong. It was discontinued in September 1987.

#11 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 - 06:21
I finally received it this week. Strangely, just the fact that I was using an LCII with its impotent little startup chime and one of those 14" trinitrons really took me back. 14 years melted away. And it does run system 6 without needing Wish I Were, but for some reason, same as my SE/30, when you start up from floppy in 6, the hard disk doesn’t show up. Any ideas?

#12 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 - 06:54
What system version do you have on the HD?

#13 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 - 07:14
6 on the SE/30, 7.5 on the LCII.

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