Greetings from my Performa 6200!

[porter]

I wouldn't mind getting one of the x200/x300 machines with a bad ROM.

Why?

Years ago I remember getting a disk through the post sent my Apple so I could check my 6200. It passed with flying colours whatever the problem was.

 

[Gil]

I wouldn't mind getting one of the x200/x300 machines with a bad ROM.

Why?

Years ago I remember getting a disk through the post sent my Apple so I could check my 6200. It passed with flying colours whatever the problem was.

Not really sure why. I suppose it would be kind of like owning one of the PB5300 batteries known to catch fire, like someone recently posted here. It's fun to own old, faulty products.

 

[Mike Richardson]

I have tons of 5200s and such sitting around which have special stickers on the back indicating they had the board replaced for the faulty ROM. I never thought to test any of the non-stickered ones.

 

[LCGuy]

Mine lacks the sticker, and as I said, contains a "good" ROM.

Back in 2002, I was doing work experience at a local AASP, and we had a Power Mac 6200 (basically the same machine as the Performa 6200, sold through different dealers from memory) come in that needed a power supply replacement, and the owner also wanted OS 8.1 installed. The machine got given to me to work on, and I remember running the 5xxx/6xxx tester and discovering that the machine had a faulty ROM, and the OS 8 installer wouldn't work on it because of the faulty ROM from memory.

 

[IIsi]

After suffering with a Mac Plus from 1988 to 2005 (Yes it is cute now, back as a kid growing up and seeing everything pass by me this blew chunks) I cannot remember ever being happier to see any Mac than my family's old Performa 6300CD. Yes looking back they sucked. But after years of using the Plus with a tired old 20 MB external drive, (which had lots of games I could never play, like Solarian, and other color only or 32 bit only games) the day we finally got the 6300, I hooked it up to the ol' SCSI port, and was knocked off my feet. The funny thing is my parents almost bought a 6200CD, and the day before we went off to buy it, I remember reading all the tech specs online about it, and last minute made up some fib about how we couldn't use internet unless we got the 6300 instead ( A lie I made up about the Comm Slot based on some half truth about a bug it had at the time). It worked, and I got a 100 Mhz 603e not a 75 Mhz 603. I remember playing Marathon on it, and PowerXplorer, and After Dark, and not having them SUCKKKK!!!! So much fun.....I will always love these crippled little Macs because they freed me from the dungeon of 8 Mhz obsolescence.