Old Apple computer Check in Thread

[840quadra]

oh, never knew that. pretty cool though... Too bad the LCIII is nowhere close by right now. I even have 2 of them

How sad is it that I STILL use an LC for my home Accounting server! It has an old version of Quicken loaded on it that I use for keeping track of finances. It is backed up weekly to an other system, so don't worry

 

[Voidness]

How sad is it that I STILL use an LC for my home Accounting server! It has an old version of Quicken loaded on it that I use for keeping track of finances. It is backed up weekly to an other system, so don't worry

The LCIII is really cool computer, it's surprisingly capable too. I have Photoshop 2.0 LE and Illustrator 5 (I think it was 5) running on it, it handles basic tasks well, oh yeah! I've had it since I was in grade 3, and that's when I got hooked up on Macs Can't wait till my iBook arrives

 

[chatin]

ebay special $200 20th Anniversary Mac

One of the code names for this 20th Anniversary Mac was "smoke and mirrors" This mac is held together by spit and wire, conceived during Apple's darkest hours.

Woz is qouted in a 1997 Mac Addict article as saying that this machine is junk. The hard drive can't be upgrade over 4 gigabytes because of a disk controller defect.

It didn't come with a built in ethernet card, so I pulled a LC Slot II, 10baseT out of the boneyard. No green light on anything until I changed the battery and got my settings exactly right.

The chime on this thing is a "Sound by BOSE" interpretation of the first mac 128 chime, invented by a little known Apple employee who was only on the mac team for a week. A conflict with Steve Jobs sent him out of the company. (See. Revolution in the Valley, 2005 Hertfeld)

I decided to put the subwoofer under the desk. Tip for anyone thinking of owning one of these "classics" Don't move the subwoofer while powered up.
The power supply for the computer is inside the Bose sub and all the magnetic feilds make it very sensitive to movement, and freezing the screen.

So the ethernet went out again, until I got out Norton and did a disk repair.

But finally, I got to the board and made this post!

 

[5300cs]

... 20th Anniversary Mac ...

I have a TAM, too; it's one of the best machines in my collection.

I paid $1000 for mine though, 3 years ago
I am though, one of the only people in Japan who owns one. The only person in my city, I'm pretty sure.

 

[mkjj]

TAM

One of my best too, bougth mine fore £700 GBP! a few years ago, mind you it is a bit special. Check the processor speed! Runs fine on my DSL account via 10/100 card.


www.mac-collection.co.uk

 

[JonMaker]

The PB 180 has a SCSI port, so you'd most likely need a SCSI ethernet adapter. A company called Asante was making them back in the day (dunno about now.)

I've seen a PB145 (c.1992) on the 'net using one of those. It was awe-inspiring.

 

[Sly]

One of my best too, bougth mine fore £700 GBP! a few years ago, mind you it is a bit special. Check the processor speed! Runs fine on my DSL account via 10/100 card.

How did you get a G3 in to a TAM? Did you have to swap the whole MB, I seem to remeber hearing that the TAM was basically a Powerbook 3400 in a facy suit, so I assume a Kanga MB swap is possible?

 

[5300cs]

How did you get a G3 in to a TAM? Did you have to swap the whole MB, I seem to remeber hearing that the TAM was basically a Powerbook 3400 in a facy suit, so I assume a Kanga MB swap is possible?

Sonnet made an upgrade card for the TAM. Puts it up to a 500Mhz G3

 

[neoelectronaut]

Being that the only other Mac I have other than my eMac is a Mac Plus...

HAHAHAHA...Right

 

[mkjj]

upgrade G3

5300cs is spot on, it is a Sonnet G3 card, bought the TAM with it already installed. The only issue I have is static in the unit speaker on the left (not the dreaded TAM sub buzz, I have a spare just in case though!)) I have read that this can be cured by taking the TAM apart and resoldering the connections but life is too short so I use a nice pair of Apple Design Speakers II in sexy black (quite rare too) if the speakers play up, matches the black Design Keyboard and mouse (the original keyboard is in the draw next to it, bit fragile to use everyday)

 

[FadeToBlack]

I'm typing this on my Lombard. (Introduced May, 1999) I'm connected to the internet wirelessly, using a Belkin 802.11g wireless router and a Sonnet Aria Extreme wireless card. The specs are in the sig. Here's a screenshot.

 

[840quadra]

Performa 6320cd

Again running OS 8.1 (I love this OS) I am checking in with an older mac. I got my LC on the internet last night, and on Macrumors, however a DNS issue is preventing me from getting onto the forums to post!!

Anyway here is the 6320 with AV personality, TV Tuner, modem, and ethernet. For the time this was a somewhat loaded home computer.



Everymac Machine Specs

 

[840quadra]

The LCIII is really cool computer, it's surprisingly capable too. I have Photoshop 2.0 LE and Illustrator 5 (I think it was 5) running on it, it handles basic tasks well, oh yeah! I've had it since I was in grade 3, and that's when I got hooked up on Macs Can't wait till my iBook arrives

Congrats on the iBook, Sorry I didn't see this post earlier!

if you have the LC, try to post in here with it when you are close . I just bought an ibook G3 (well in pieces) and use it on here often.

 

[Belly-laughs]

I seem to remember SE's being able to run IE or netscape...someone needs to get one of them online again. I remember a website where somebody had the entire site hosted off one and the site was stored on a floppy diskette. 3 1/2", would have been funnier on a 5 1/4 though! haha!

I got a 2nd hand SE that I´ve tried to connect to the local network and the net. The problem is I can´t find an extension for the network card. It´s running Mac OS 7.5.3, if I remember correctly. I´ll try to dig out this thread and post when or if I ever sort it out.

I could always get the old Global Village modem out, I suppose… Not as much fun, though.

 

[martinws]

Here's a screen dump of my IIfx, System 7.6.

I got so close, just couldn't log into this site with Netscape Communicator 4.05
:-(

 

[ahunter3]

I have an original LC at work with a PDS ethernet card, running System 6.0.8 very nicely. I can FTP and email just fine but there's no System 6-compatible browser that will play nicely with vBulletin and let me post from it here. (MacWWW will just barely let me use Google).

My PowerBook '98 (WallStreet) is less impressive, relic-wise, except that it's still my latest and greatest

Specs (Image too large to inline elegantly)

It was born with a 300 MHz G3, 128 MB RAM, and an 8 gig HD, and now sports a Sonnet G4/500, 512, and two internal 7200 RPM Hitachi 60s. PowerBooks of that vintage did not have USB or FireWire and could not support an "expanded" Desktop (you could run an external monitor as a mirror of the TFT, or at a different res at the expense of blacking out the TFT), but it was the last PowerBook to have two CardBus card slots so I have USB via card, nice extended-desktop support via VillageTronic card, and FireWire via card (though obviously not all 3 at the same time). This machine shipped with MacOS 8.1 and still has 8.1 installed on one bootable partition, but can also boot 10.3.8 (my everyday OS), 10.2.8, 9.2.2 (for Classic), 9.0.4, and 8.6. It's old enough it can boot from a floppy (MacOS 8, floppy module in the expansion bay), modern enough to use an external FireWire DVD burner. (It has an 8x MCE CDRW burner in one of the expansion bays, btw). I scan images in from a SCSI 3-pass flatbed scanner and then edit them with The GIMP in my X11 environment.

I'm hoping to see a Paris expo announcement about dual-core PowerBooks, and preferably hard disks that are faster than the 5200 RPM-vicinity. If not...well, this seven-year-old still measures up well against current offerings!

 

[ahunter3]

Here's a screen dump of my IIfx, System 7.6.

I got so close, just couldn't log into this site with Netscape Communicator 4.05
:-(

You can run iCab under System 7.6, they still make a 68K version of it!

http://www.icab.de/dl.php

Go for the 2.9.x version and you'll see a 68K version listed for download.

 

[5300cs]

I have an original LC at work with a PDS ethernet card, running System 6.0.8 very nicely. I can FTP and email just fine but there's no System 6-compatible browser that will play nicely with vBulletin and let me post from it here. (MacWWW will just barely let me use Google).

Do you know Jags House? pretty cool site for OS 6 users.

Specs (Image too large to inline elegantly)

So you have the 500Mhz G4 upgrade installed, right? I've been looking for that for my Pismo but have so far been unsuccessful. I don't live in the US right now so I'm looking for one used, or a company that'll (reliably) ship overseas.

Nice setup though!!

 

[840quadra]

I have an original LC at work with a PDS ethernet card, running System 6.0.8 very nicely. I can FTP and email just fine but there's no System 6-compatible browser that will play nicely with vBulletin and let me post from it here. (MacWWW will just barely let me use Google).

I could get onto Macrumors with my original LC, but I couldn't get into the forums. Some odd DNS issue would bring me to the company that is hosting Macrumors.com, but not to the actual forums!

Will you guys let me post on here with my Quadra, containing a Screenshot of the LC being on Macrumors, and the "about this mac" screen up ?

I am so close I can feel it, it just won't go that extra step

 

[840quadra]

Well back from the dead, the old Check in thread

I have brought it back because we have quite a few new Classic users, and possibly the chance of more systems available from existing collectors.

I am posting today on my Performa 575 AIO. I have recently taken this computer back from a friends house as they had caused it not to boot (kids deleted files) and since have switched to a much newer PC. I have reloaded this with OS 8.0 and did the free upgrade to os 8.1 . Not sure if this is the best OS for this hardware, however I am able to get onto the web, and I have decided to write an article on this mac for my site today .

Hope everyone is having fun with their collections, feel free to post here with any you have online.

 

[macEfan]

I tried to get my LCII on MR, but it was painfully slow, and caused the computer to crash It only has 8 mb of ram.

 

[Maxwell Smart]

I have an iBook SE (introduced February 2000) and a Powerbook 1400c/133 (introduced November 1996) that I put a PCMCIA wireless card in once I get system 7 up and running on it (it currently has 8.6 and feels pretty slow) I'll post here with it

 

[maestro55]

Here I am posting from my PowerMac 5500. I have another one, but it has some obvious hardware problems (screen doesn't show anything, and it makes a horrible sound when booting up). I really wish I had the machines that I grew up with (Apple //e, Apple //gs, Macintosh Classic, Macintosh LCIII, Centris which I don't know the model on it, and a PowerBook Duo Dock) So sad.. that would be one hell of a collection today (compared to what I have now). The Apple //e and //gs, centris, classic, and LC3 were all sold to a friend who traded them for a PC. That was during when my dad was making the switch the PCs and I didn't have a Mac again until I got these 5500 three years ago. The Duo Dock suffered its death when it fell off my desk (I shared a room at that time with three other boys and my brothers were roughing around and pulled the cable. My fault for having the cable in the way)

Dad has a G3 Tower in storage, but he won't let me have it, he says I already have too many computers in my room. Only 5 and one doesn't work..

 

[dpaanlka]

Here I am, as usual, on Mac OS 7.6.1.

PowerBook 1400c
466mhz G3
64mb RAM
Orinoco Gold Card

Forums show up just fine in IE 5.

This isn't really out of the ordinary for me.

 

[DougTheImpaler]

How did you get IE 5 running on 7.6.1? I thought for sure it was 8.1 and later only...