My 200 MHz Motorola StarMax 4000 MT was great. Very clean design (even if it did look like a PC), something I've always liked in a case. Also, it was pretty well upgradeable, eve…
I wonder how many on this forum actually ever had one? I know that I felt it was the best decision at the time, coming out of The Dark Times right before the second coming of Mr. J…
I had a radius for a few weeks, hated it
power pc with nubus, cpu soldered to the logic board, and every single peice of it was rivited to the case so you could not change hard dr…
First, I snagged an "Apple 3.5 Drive" in very good (physical) condition. I believe this is one of the drives that could be used with either an Apple IIGS or an early Macintosh - i…
68kMLAPeripheralsby Dog CowThu, 2 Jul 2009 - 19:03
Hello. I wanted to see what others thing of the mac clones. Any particular favorites? Mine is my PowerTower Pro. Its a hilarious fusion of mac and beige PC. Its pretty cool, with a…
Unfortunately macgreg was taken on MacTalk
The iMacs are very tough too - my 4 year old son inserted three CD-ROMS into a slot load drive at once - I extracted them all and th…
(btw I am gregh from MacTalk...)
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Oh hey, I had no idea you were on MacTalk. I'm over there with you and Byrd as well, same name as here.
Really nice little …
I read Apple hinted that they intended to introduce an expansion card for adding an external 400K drive following the release of the Lisa 2, which only had one 400K drive. From wha…
Oddly, the issue only happens with the 7.5 installer...Guess I have to go back to the drawing board with that one.
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My Performa 6200 came with a CD with the o…
Oddly, the issue only happens with the 7.5 installer...Guess I have to go back to the drawing board with that one.
What do you mean by "zeroed the drive", have you run Drive…
It's 7.5.3 (the one freely-distributed on Apple's site). Guess I should have been more specific. :I
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Do all the installers, eg 7.6, 8.0, 8.5 report the same …
I zeroed the drive, and attempted to install OS 7.5.
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•requires System 7.5.1 through 9.1
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/performa-6200.html
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Is the battery flat?
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Yes, but it has been since I've gotten it, and like I said, I've reinstalled the system many times.
What does "About Macintosh" s…
After experiencing some weird occurrences (menu bar disappearing) on my Performa 6200, I decided to format and start fresh. I zeroed the drive, and attempted to install OS 7.5. I b…
I had no idea the transfer rates were so high
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IBM PC's, even with an 8088 (wow!) used a DMA controller for floppy disk because of the data rates. You could j…
IWM in the Macintosh is similar but not identical to the Apple ][ controller. There's a / device out there that emulates a physical floppy drive and works with the Apple ][ / calle…
Man I wish our goodwill doesnt suck, I asked one day where the computers were, they said downtown, so I called downtown and "the public is not allowed into that area"
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