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Post your oldest "living" PowerPC Mac!
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How is it that your keyboard so clean and fresh looking even though its old, have you never used it?
I use it daily. I tend not to abuse my computers. That keyboard got a thorough spring clean recently. I actually got another one today to go with my iMac G4. That one could also do with a clean.
As for my oldest computer, that is now a Wallstreet PDQ 266Mhz. That cost me a princely 99p. Sold as is with no power adapter and no idea whether it worked or not or what it was. Seller picked it up among other things in a car boot sale or so she said.
Turned out it was pristine with barely any use. Booted up immediately. The battery was empty. It charged up in a few hours but for some reason will not power the notebook. In fact, I don't think this PDQ has been switched on this century until now considering how vibrant the screen is. It puts my Pismos to shame to say nothing of the PDQ I used to own. Even the damn hinges on this are solid.
It came with stock specs - 64MB RAM and a 4GB ATA-2 drive running MacOS 8.5. No additional apps appear to have been installed. In fact, judging from the URLs and Realplayer videoclips splattered all over the Desktop and the browsing history the original owner (name withheld) used this exclusively for surfing male escort websites.
I rather suspect now that this laptop may have been stolen at some stage or are people really this careless?
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I had a similar keyboard and the letters on the keys started to fade by the end of its lifetime.
Are you not disgusted by using used keyboards. You never know who used them before you... eek!
Yes and no. All laptops have keyboards so the same applies to them. Ditto shop display computers in Apple Stores etc. You can be too squeamish.
That said, the keyboard I just acquired was grubby beyond description. I stripped it right down and gave it a thorughly good clean. A good wash in detergent for the keycaps and rubber springs, alcohol for the rest. A magic eraser works wonders on yellowed parts and cables. It took a couple of hours but now it looks brand new except for some slight fading on the letter E key.
That said, the keyboard I just acquired was grubby beyond description. I stripped it right down and gave it a thorughly good clean. A good wash in detergent for the keycaps and rubber springs, alcohol for the rest. A magic eraser works wonders on yellowed parts and cables. It took a couple of hours but now it looks brand new except for some slight fading on the letter E key.
Technically it was not the first Power Macintosh released. The 6100/60, 7100/66, and 8100/80 hold that distinction. However it was part of the first generation of Power Macintosh's released.
Yeah, I have both a 6100/60 and a 6100/66.
I also have the "older" PowerPC systems: PowerBook 540c with official Apple PowerPC upgrade, and Quadra 700 with official Apple PowerPC upgrade.
Oldest PPC machine I have running is a Power Computing Power Center Pro 210 - a 180 Mhz 604e that runs OS 8.6 happy as a clam. The optical drive is starting to go but otherwise no issues.
Oldest Apple PPC I have running is a digital audio G4 tower, originally a dual 533 Mhz machine that has been heavily upgraded, now with a Radeon 9800 gfx card, dual 1.6 Ghz G4 processors, 3 512gb HDD, and 1.5 Gb of RAM, running 10.5.
My oldest PPC laptop is a 667 Mhz DVI TiBook, which has a broken USB port, a slowly dying backlight, inexplicably refuses to boot into OS 9, and otherwise happily runs 10.4
Oldest Apple PPC I have running is a digital audio G4 tower, originally a dual 533 Mhz machine that has been heavily upgraded, now with a Radeon 9800 gfx card, dual 1.6 Ghz G4 processors, 3 512gb HDD, and 1.5 Gb of RAM, running 10.5.
My oldest PPC laptop is a 667 Mhz DVI TiBook, which has a broken USB port, a slowly dying backlight, inexplicably refuses to boot into OS 9, and otherwise happily runs 10.4
This is my pride and joy
iMac G4, 1Ghz, 2GB Ram with original keyboard, mouse and speakers.
Cheers
iMac G4, 1Ghz, 2GB Ram with original keyboard, mouse and speakers.
Cheers
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This is a popular long running thread so please stay on topic and cut out the bickering.
This is a popular long running thread so please stay on topic and cut out the bickering.
33MHz is gonna be a 68k system, not a PPC
The first PPC macs were the PowerMac 6100, 7100, and 8100 with a 60mhz PPC 601 CPU they also came in Performa and WorkGroup Server models.
I owned the 6100/66 for a time back in the late 90s
I have an X Serve G5 here now but it has a bad earth in the Power Supply and its hard to boot.
Ahh, the old Pizza Box Mac! I had one with a DOS card installed and could boot into either Windows or Apple OS. (although I can't remember why I wanted to do that now!)
How About a llVi - sort of
Currently I am rebuilding someone's Powermac 7200 with an 8600 logic board and a Sonnet G4 processor. The CD Rom is broken it needs one to load OS9.1.
The only SCSI CD Rom I have that works is in a machine I bought as a llVi ungraded to llVX, upgraded to 7100/80 and added a Sonnet NUBUS G3 processor - for which I have lost the driver! (Anyone got one?)
I gave my SE FDHD to my daughter - she binned it.
Currently I am rebuilding someone's Powermac 7200 with an 8600 logic board and a Sonnet G4 processor. The CD Rom is broken it needs one to load OS9.1.
The only SCSI CD Rom I have that works is in a machine I bought as a llVi ungraded to llVX, upgraded to 7100/80 and added a Sonnet NUBUS G3 processor - for which I have lost the driver! (Anyone got one?)
I gave my SE FDHD to my daughter - she binned it.
I have a crappy Performa 550 slowly falling apart. Runs strong, but the case has seen some years. It even has a 'hip' Apple sticker on the side of it, the retro 'rainbow' kind. I wish there was a way to remove it for keeps. But my ACTUAL oldest is my Macintosh Classic I with the 4MB upgrade. Keeps it nice and spicy.
I have an original B&W G3/300Mhz model in the closet. It still works, it's just in pieces at the moment as it had to give up some of it's parts (namely a DVD burner I had installed) for use in the iMac. I have 4x256Mb sticks in it, but it only sees 512Mb of memory, and I can't get it to see ANY PCI expansion cards (I've tried several from local vendors). Also, strangely enough, the 300Mhz CPU only shipped on Rev A motherboards (with their little hard drive issue) but the board in mine is a Rev B board (and incidentally came with the faster of the two graphics cards they offered, the Rage 128 Pro).
I would fix it up, but at present I have no task for it. Thought about turning it into a server of sorts. Also, I just spent money fixing up the iMac, so it's not the highest priority. Still can't believe I can surf the internet on a 12 year old computer.
Do we get points for one's oldest non-PPC Mac? I've got a Macintosh SE FDHD and an ImageWriter II setup.
I know this is a decade old but was wondering if you might still be on here. I am tryng to figure out what my problem is with surfing the internet on my old towers-I have 2 g5s and 1 G4 plus I use my laptop MBP to surf the internet and keep up to date on banking and all that as my towers are filled with errors on amost every site i visit.
Any advice would be appreciated...I am wondering if it is a settings issue.
It sounds like you're running into SSL/certificate errors. This can be mostly solved by using an updated browser. I'd recommend starting a new thread with the exact errors you're seeing and someone here will get you going the right direction. If you're running Leopard, you can consider Leopard Webkit, and running either Tiger or Leopard will offer you TenFourFox. For the MBP, if you're running Snow Leopard, @wicknix's Arctic Fox is a fantastic option. Start a thread detailing what the exact machines you have are, and the OS they're each running, and I'm sure you'll get some excellent recommendations.
My safari also stopped working a wile back... probably because of the netproviders servers. for SLL crypt problems (especially on WIFI) try searching for Keychain Access fixes. if that doesn't work, swich to TenFourFox Opera or Camino.
The net was great place back in 06-09 . Now its just broken.(like most things and life's)
