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Here we go! The moment you've been waiting for, my update post! So yesterday I got my Performa 6360, PowerBook G3 Wallstreet, and MDD. I also got the Polaroid photo scanner.

So starting with the Performa, it is an awesome system. So awesome that it has 128MB of RAM, AND A SONNET G3 CARD! Which means I can put tiger on a Performa. I'm probably not doing that due to drive constraints, but in theory, it would be cool. Currently it has System 7.5.3.

Next is the Wallstreet. This is a extremely unique system. It is running 9.2.1, and will soon be on 9.2.2 with a fresh system folder. The machine is a 14 in model as well. The specs are In a picture below. Lastly, the battery is completely dead on this one, so ill see if I can find a New one.

Finally, the beautiful MDD. This system is in beautiful condition and works pretty smooth. It has 2GB of RAM, an 8GB HDD, and runs 10.5.8. However, it is extremely loud with the fans running at high speed constantly for some reason. I tried to clean out out the fans to no avail. Also, the disk drive wont read the disks, so I have to replace that Disk Drive with a spare.

He gave me a Laser Writer and a 1.25GHz eMac, but I had no room in my car to take them, so I will next time. I also got an Apple Extended Keyboard II and the teardrop Apple Mouse, a Quantum Fireball SCSI HDD, a spare SCSI disk drive, and a spare Floppy drive.

This was a huge haul for me this past time. Next up is the 7300 and 8500, the eMac and printer, and perhaps two apple monitors. He said one was an AppleVision he got with the 7300, and he didn't mention the second one.

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Here we go! The moment you've been waiting for, my update post! So yesterday I got my Performa 6360, PowerBook G3 Wallstreet, and MDD. I also got the Polaroid photo scanner.

So starting with the Performa, it is an awesome system. So awesome that it has 128MB of RAM, AND A SONNET G3 CARD! Which means I can put tiger on a Performa. I'm probably not doing that due to drive constraints, but in theory, it would be cool. Currently it has System 7.5.3.

Next is the Wallstreet. This is a extremely unique system. It is running 9.2.1, and will soon be on 9.2.2 with a fresh system folder. The machine is a 14 in model as well. The specs are In a picture below. Lastly, the battery is completely dead on this one, so ill see if I can find a New one.

Finally, the beautiful MDD. This system is in beautiful condition and works pretty smooth. It has 2GB of RAM, an 8GB HDD, and runs 10.5.8. However, it is extremely loud with the fans running at high speed constantly for some reason. I tried to clean out out the fans to no avail. Also, the disk drive wont read the disks, so I have to replace that Disk Drive with a spare.

He gave me a Laser Writer and a 1.25GHz eMac, but I had no room in my car to take them, so I will next time. I also got an Apple Extended Keyboard II and the teardrop Apple Mouse, a Quantum Fireball SCSI HDD, a spare SCSI disk drive, and a spare Floppy drive.

This was a huge haul for me this past time. Next up is the 7300 and 8500, the eMac and printer, and perhaps two apple monitors. He said one was an AppleVision he got with the 7300, and he didn't mention the second one.

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The nice thing about classic Mac OS is that it is very light and simple. It's also easy to install. Just copy some folders and boom! Instant OS! No permission hell or anything.
But then the extensions...
Well extensions aren't very big of a deal as long as you don't install tons of crap
 
Great haul on the first round of stuff! The boxes are especially nice.

I need to get a Wallstreet...now that I'm done(so I say) buying Powerbook G4s and iBooks, I think I'm going to work on the G3 series of Powerbooks.

Yours looks very nice. Just be forewarned that(unlike for most newer PPC Laptops), aftermarket batteries are VERY expensive. The battery in my Pismo is all but dead, but I decided against it as even the cheap aftermarket batteries would cost more than I paid for the computer. If you're going to use it, just be prepared to haul a power adapter around with you everywhere.

One last thing-the G3 card(along with a video card) should let you install Tiger but the process can be a bit challenging unless you can find the(rare) Tiger CD set. Many Old World Rom Macs are "funny" about booting off non-Apple optical drives, so just putting a DVD drive in it won't necessarily be a solution. I say this not to discourage you(I love this sort of project myself), but just to warn you that it's not a necessarily a straight-forward installation. If nothing else it will be very educational for you. You'll probably also need to track down Xpostfacto to help you with the install.
 
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bunnspecial said:
Great haul on the first round of stuff! The boxes are especially nice.

I need to get a Wallstreet...now that I'm done(so I say) buying Powerbook G4s and iBooks, I think I'm going to work on the G3 series of Powerbooks.

Yours looks very nice. Just be forewarned that(unlike for most newer PPC Laptops), aftermarket batteries are VERY expensive. The battery in my Pismo is all but dead, but I decided against it as even the cheap aftermarket batteries would cost more than I paid for the computer. If you're going to use it, just be prepared to haul a power adapter around with you everywhere.

One last thing-the G3 card(along with a video card) should let you install Tiger but the process can be a bit challenging unless you can find the(rare) Tiger CD set. Many Old World Rom Macs are "funny" about booting off non-Apple optical drives, so just putting a DVD drive in it won't necessarily be a solution. I say this not to discourage you(I love this sort of project myself), but just to warn you that it's not a necessarily a straight-forward installation. If nothing else it will be very educational for you. You'll probably also need to track down Xpostfacto to help you with the install.
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Thanks! I would sell you it, but i actually do like it. I figured from the start i would have to carry around the power cord with it, good thing its very long. I'm actually satisfied with OS 9 for the time being, and luckily the disk drive works fine. Since the battery is dead, i should look into buying a floppy drive to put in the other slot. I may upgrade to a low OS X, but more the less it would be for kicks and giggles and education as you mentioned. An SSD would be awesome for this computer, since it's silent without the hard drive spinning. I also need a WiFi card or Airport card of some sort.

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The nice thing about classic Mac OS is that it is very light and simple. It's also easy to install. Just copy some folders and boom! Instant OS! No permission hell or anything.
But then the extensions...
Well extensions aren't very big of a deal as long as you don't install tons of crap
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yeah its very light and smooth sailing, until something crashes and the whole computer freezes. Being that I used Windows 95, 98, and ME, I think OS 9 was much smoother than 95, and slightly better than 98, and way better than ME. OS 8, however, I don't think was better than 95 or 98, or even ME. I feel that 7 was better than 8, but 9 was the best of the classic Mac OSes.
 
Honestly, although most of my G3-based computers have OS X in some form installed on them, I stick with OS 9 for the most part. The only ones that see any serious OS X time are my Pismo and my 800mhz iBook. I absolutely will not use a version of OS X earlier than Tiger for a lot of reasons(not the least of which is poor current software support). Despite the public "funeral" Steve Jobs held for OS 9 in 2002, in 2015, OS 9 is actually better supported by 3rd party vendors than 10.3 and earlier(a lot of that has do with the fact that there is still a very strong OS 9 community out there). Classilla is a far better than anything available for 10.3 and earlier.

Track down older software like Photoshop 7, Office 2001, and things like that and you can get plenty of serious work done in OS 9 with much lower "overhead" than OS X. Corel released Word Perfect 3.5E for free download after they decided to stop further development of the Macintosh version in 1997 or so. A lot of the games that I grew up playing(Sim City 2000, Sim Tower, Civilization II) run in OS 9, and I find running them natively in OS 9 rather than Classic mode under OS X a much more enjoyable experience.

Of course, it can be very annoying when one program crashes and brings down the whole system...When I was in high school and we had a room full of iMac G3s running OS 9(or maybe 8.5 for all I know-I never bothered to check) we were constantly pestered to save our work for this very reason. It's a habit that has stuck to me to this day, despite the great auto-save features on newer versions of Office.
 
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The Performa 6360 was my first Mac in 1995, I was trying to remember the name just a day ago. 8 MB memory, can one imagine.:rolleyes: Loved that Mac, was on cloud nine when I got 8 more MBs.

If you need a working G4 Dual 1.25 to be taken off your hands, here I am. Would even talk price.

Patt
 
bunnspecial said:
Honestly, although most of my G3-based computers have OS X in some form installed on them, I stick with OS 9 for the most part. The only ones that see any serious OS X time are my Pismo and my 800mhz iBook. I absolutely will not use a version of OS X earlier than Tiger for a lot of reasons(not the least of which is poor current software support). Despite the public "funeral" Steve Jobs held for OS 9 in 2002, in 2015, OS 9 is actually better supported by 3rd party vendors than 10.3 and earlier(a lot of that has do with the fact that there is still a very strong OS 9 community out there). Classilla is a far better than anything available for 10.3 and earlier.

Track down older software like Photoshop 7, Office 2001, and things like that and you can get plenty of serious work done in OS 9 with much lower "overhead" than OS X. Corel released Word Perfect 3.5E for free download after they decided to stop further development of the Macintosh version in 1997 or so. A lot of the games that I grew up playing(Sim City 2000, Sim Tower, Civilization II) run in OS 9, and I find running them natively in OS 9 rather than Classic mode under OS X a much more enjoyable experience.

Of course, it can be very annoying when one program crashes and brings down the whole system...When I was in high school and we had a room full of iMac G3s running OS 9(or maybe 8.5 for all I know-I never bothered to check) we were constantly pestered to save our work for this very reason. It's a habit that has stuck to me to this day, despite the great auto-save features on newer versions of Office.
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He was obsessed with Photoshop 4, so every classic computer I got from him has it. Ill probably use the PowerBook for classic gaming, since it has Ethernet and a disk drive. The 6360 could too, but it has no Ethernet.

Yeah, it is amazing that OS 9 is still massively supported than Puma, Cheetah, Jaguar. Later today, ill load up a fresh system folder, classical, and some Games. I tried to play some on the 6100/66, and it lagged hard, even for games made for it. Like I said, I'm staying on OS 9 on that Wallstreet

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The Performa 6360 was my first Mac in 1995, I was trying to remember the name just a day ago. 8 MB memory, can one imagine.:rolleyes: Loved that Mac, was on cloud nine when I got 8 more MBs.

If you need a working G4 Dual 1.25 to be taken off your hands, here I am. Would even talk price.

Patt
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Luckily mine has 128MB of RAM and a G3 processor in it. Thanks for the offer on the MDD, but for right now, I think I'm going to keep it.
 
Well, a bit of sad news, the HDD in the MDD died last night while I was doing a fresh install of OS X. Luckily, because of that, I backed up everything literally right before it died. Of course, my luck goes back down, because I dont have another IDE drive, I don't have a SATA card, and My new SuperDrive is broken as well, its too weak, which is why I Replaced it in the first place out of my G5.

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And of course after it started clicking, I removed it and then had some fun with it after I got it open ;)
 
Gamer9430 said:
Well, a bit of sad news, the HDD in the MDD died last night while I was doing a fresh install of OS X. Luckily, because of that, I backed up everything literally right before it died. Of course, my luck goes back down, because I dont have another IDE drive, I don't have a SATA card, and My new SuperDrive is broken as well, its too weak, which is why I Replaced it in the first place out of my G5.

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And of course after it started clicking, I removed it and then had some fun with it after I got it open ;)
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PM me your mailing address and I'll send you an IDE drive.
 
Gamer9430 said:
Well, a bit of sad news, the HDD in the MDD died last night while I was doing a fresh install of OS X. Luckily, because of that, I backed up everything literally right before it died. Of course, my luck goes back down, because I dont have another IDE drive, I don't have a SATA card, and My new SuperDrive is broken as well, its too weak, which is why I Replaced it in the first place out of my G5.

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And of course after it started clicking, I removed it and then had some fun with it after I got it open ;)
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Yesterday night was an unlucky night...
My father opened the front door and that instant a car crashed in front of our house.
 
I am totally jealous right now, You have a faster MDD and eMac than I do! NTM your MDD has its RAM maxed out!

As far as the fans take a picture of the door open (a more lit picture) Perhaps me or another user on here could tell why its running full bore.

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bunnspecial said:
Great haul on the first round of stuff! The boxes are especially nice.

I need to get a Wallstreet...now that I'm done(so I say) buying Powerbook G4s and iBooks, I think I'm going to work on the G3 series of Powerbooks.

Yours looks very nice. Just be forewarned that(unlike for most newer PPC Laptops), aftermarket batteries are VERY expensive. The battery in my Pismo is all but dead, but I decided against it as even the cheap aftermarket batteries would cost more than I paid for the computer. If you're going to use it, just be prepared to haul a power adapter around with you everywhere.

One last thing-the G3 card(along with a video card) should let you install Tiger but the process can be a bit challenging unless you can find the(rare) Tiger CD set. Many Old World Rom Macs are "funny" about booting off non-Apple optical drives, so just putting a DVD drive in it won't necessarily be a solution. I say this not to discourage you(I love this sort of project myself), but just to warn you that it's not a necessarily a straight-forward installation. If nothing else it will be very educational for you. You'll probably also need to track down Xpostfacto to help you with the install.
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As I have stated before I am no expert but in theory, If yo installed a Apple SuperDrive or Combo Drive it would work right? Also, as far as tiger goes, Wouldn't a FireWire 400 card and a USB 2 card (as well as the obvious PCI Graphics Card) be enough to get Tiger to install on unsupported Macs since FireWire is required to install it?

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Gamer9430 said:
Well, a bit of sad news, the HDD in the MDD died last night while I was doing a fresh install of OS X. Luckily, because of that, I backed up everything literally right before it died. Of course, my luck goes back down, because I dont have another IDE drive, I don't have a SATA card, and My new SuperDrive is broken as well, its too weak, which is why I Replaced it in the first place out of my G5.

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And of course after it started clicking, I removed it and then had some fun with it after I got it open ;)
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I have plenty of IDE HDDs most are 40GB but i have atlest 4 of them!

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bunnspecial said:
PM me your mailing address and I'll send you an IDE drive.
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What sizes of IDE HDDs do you have?
 
MatthewLTL said:
As I have stated before I am no expert but in theory, If yo installed a Apple SuperDrive or Combo Drive it would work right? Also, as far as tiger goes, Wouldn't a FireWire 400 card and a USB 2 card (as well as the obvious PCI Graphics Card) be enough to get Tiger to install on unsupported Macs since FireWire is required to install it?
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No-built in Firewire is required.

10.2.8 is the most recent OS X version officially supported on any OWR Mac, as 10.3 requires built in USB(only NWR Macs have USB).

Xpostfacto will allow you to get around both of these limitations.

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What sizes of IDE HDDs do you have?
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Different sizes...
 
Here comes installment 2! This Thursday, I'll be getting my LaserWriter, eMac 1.25GHz, 2 classic Apple Monitors, an older Apple Keyboard and Mouse, the PowerMac 7300 with a G3 upgrade, and a PowerMac 8500. Also there is a box of misc wires and Mac stuff that he is bringing as well. This is probably the last installment for now, unless he says he has something else for me. Either way, I'm extremely grateful for what he has done for me.
 
And I do promise that your hard drives are going out tomorrow :)

They're boxed up and the shipping label printed-I just haven't been able to get them into the mail.
 
bunnspecial said:
And I do promise that your hard drives are going out tomorrow :)

They're boxed up and the shipping label printed-I just haven't been able to get them into the mail.
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I don't mind, but good to hear. I'll be putting the MDD to good use!
 
Well, here's another update! I got my hard drives from Bunn and my software from the nice guy on here (I don't remember his username). I also got the PowerMac 8500 yesterday as well as a box full of wires, cables, mice, books, and even Sonnet G3 and G4 upgrade cards! Most of the stuff in the box was networking, like modems and stuff, but I got a multi card reader, a ZIP drive, Apple Extended Keyboard II, 3 original ADB mice, and another ADB II mouse. There was also a 500MB Quantum Fireball, and a 1GB Fireball, and the entire board for what I'm guessing is another 8500 since the two look the same. Upon opening the lid to the 8500, I was greeted with the most ridiculous design I've ever seen in a computer. Everything was in different shelves and levels and was hard to get to the board itself. You could get to the PCI slots fine, but the RAM, forget about it... The computer is running 9.1 right now, and I'm not too sure what I could use it for. It has ethernet and Composite out, so that's useful. I also have 2 apple monitors, the eMac, the printer, and the 7300 waiting for me, but I couldn't grab them since there were way to many kids to get my mom's car close enough to load everything in easily. Perhaps on Thursday, I'll take a cart with me and put it all on the cart and move it to the car, the leave the cart back in the building...
 
Gamer9430 said:
Well, here's another update! I got my hard drives from Bunn and my software from the nice guy on here (I don't remember his username). I also got the PowerMac 8500 yesterday as well as a box full of wires, cables, mice, books, and even Sonnet G3 and G4 upgrade cards! Most of the stuff in the box was networking, like modems and stuff, but I got a multi card reader, a ZIP drive, Apple Extended Keyboard II, 3 original ADB mice, and another ADB II mouse. There was also a 500MB Quantum Fireball, and a 1GB Fireball, and the entire board for what I'm guessing is another 8500 since the two look the same. Upon opening the lid to the 8500, I was greeted with the most ridiculous design I've ever seen in a computer. Everything was in different shelves and levels and was hard to get to the board itself. You could get to the PCI slots fine, but the RAM, forget about it... The computer is running 9.1 right now, and I'm not too sure what I could use it for. It has ethernet and Composite out, so that's useful. I also have 2 apple monitors, the eMac, the printer, and the 7300 waiting for me, but I couldn't grab them since there were way to many kids to get my mom's car close enough to load everything in easily. Perhaps on Thursday, I'll take a cart with me and put it all on the cart and move it to the car, the leave the cart back in the building...
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The 8500 is a neat computer, but they are a bear to work on. You need to remove the entire logic board just to put RAM in, and there's always a chance of it not working once it's there thanks to corroded sockets and other issues.
 
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