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krowmagnum
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Still using your old school PowerPC ? - 2008/03/12 23:05 The previous post by MarkTaylor got me wondering who is still using old PIC PowerMacs or clones.

1. What do you have ?

2. What do you use it for ?

My answers:

I have a 6360 with a 250MHz PPC board in it. I haven't used it in a year or so but it's a cool little desktop that has a lot of nice features like A/V and a TV Tuner.

An LC580 all-in-one 275MHz PPC board in it that I painted black to look like a MacTV. It's been sitting in the closet for a couple years now.

And a 7600 that I just got from a friend and I may put some upgrades in it and play with XPostfacto and OS X on it. Right now it has no drive or RAM in it but I have lots of goodies laying around so I'll probably do something with it.

My PTPro still gets used to burn disks and as a scanning station with a big old SCSI Agfa scanner. It has a 400MHz G3, 1GB of RAM and three 18GB 10,000rpm drives. It has a Radeon 32MB video card and an UW SCSI card running the drives. It has an Apple CD-ROM to make it easier to boot OS disks and a couple of Yamaha SCSI CD burners. It's been through about a couple dozen different phases of upgrades and a lot of tinkering. It was my first "Mac" 10 years ago and still runs like a champ.

I also have about a dozen other PowerComputing clones in different stages of disassembly, and a couple are complete working units.

I think that's all I have at the moment, but I've had most of the PPC models Apple made through the years.

Watcha got ?
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Still using your old school PowerPC ? - 2008/03/12 23:45 Sorry, Rob, I don't have any of those old things. The oldest thing I've got is a Lombard PB, which still works, but it's pretty much dead weight in the face of two homebrew machines and two MacBooks used by my grandmother and me.

The oldest Mac I remember tearing into was a banged-up Quadra 600-series, a side-project during the final months of my tech support internship. One of my colleagues was into Macs, and found that old thing in the lab. We were charged with cleaning it up and making it Net-worthy. Sorta tough when you're stuck with OS 8 and iCab was an unknown. The CD drive was trashed, and the hard disk couldn't hold one's breath. I had to sniff around eBay to get the former, and we managed to find a 500 MB hard disk in our own stock. Took about a week to hack together, but it worked.

Last I heard, Rudy (my techno-fiend-hippie instructor) had built a Plexiglas enclosure around the salvaged innards, as the original case was shot.

Nate
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Still using your old school PowerPC ? - 2008/03/18 14:47 I have my first Mac ever, a 512Ke. Still works, although I very very rarely use it. I also have a working SE30 and a Performa 6115CD, which also still works. The HD on my Classic II crashed some time ago, and I haven't bothered to replace it.
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Still using your old school PowerPC ? - 2008/03/19 00:55 Interesting, I first started on the Apple 11E. The first Apple I owned is the Apple 11G sitting in the corner because the monitor is stuffed. Then there is the LC11, with an Apple11E card, still working and used to retrieve data from discs of the 11E and GS days. Then there was the 7200/90 that a grandaughter has fun with. The last PowerMac is the 8600/300 that is maxed out,(2HD's etc). It's used as a Router/etc/ reads disks for the G4 OSX and CD's for the G3 OS/9.2.2. The B&WG3's CD is stuffed.
The beauty of the 8600 is that USB could be installed. One memory of the 8600 is that iTunes and iPod got Downloaded via Software Update and there was no Firmware installed. It was a hazzle to shaft them. Later the Firmware got installed automatically. It was odd. The shift to the G4/MDD/10.2.0 was made because Safari was available and Microsoft wasn't going to develop Explorer for Mac's.
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Still using your old school PowerPC ? - 2008/03/19 08:15 Hi All,

Havn't posted in a while, but still have my 6400/200 a/v system.
Still use it from time to time doing web stuff. Have moved on to bigger
better iMac g5/1.6 to do more work.

Sold off all my older Mac's and iMac's but this one and my old plus.
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MarkTaylor
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Still using your old school PowerPC ? - 2008/03/23 13:26 krowmagnum,
My two Power Macs are a Power Computing PCPro and a PTPro. I
stopped using them in 2002, and went over to the Dark Side. I'm proud
to say I just bought a Mac Pro and am busy learning Leopard. Thanks
for the kind comments.
Mark
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