highlandcattle
Well-known member
This is the same story I've posted over at System7 forums so if you have read it there you can skip it here :b&w: .
Hi all,
This is Thomas from Belgium. Let me tell you my MacStory...
My dad bought a Quadra 840av in 1994 to use in his office as a medical doctor. Naturally i was drawn to this fabulous machine and kept messing about when he was not home. A year later he bought a Powerbook Duo (which was stolen from his office a few months later.) When my dad grew weary of my infernal experimenting and game playing, he bought a secondhand Mac Classic 4/40 and a LASERPRINTER for me. Initially I was disappointed by the downgrade. But still the machine gave me hours of pleasure (chipmunk basic anyone?). On the game side it was rather meager: At the time there were very few stores who carried mac gear and certainly no games that ran on my poor Classic. Luckely I discovered the early internet in a CyberCafé so I could download and install some abandonware and shareware. A year later I bought a secondhand Amiga 500 which I could get kazzillions of games for. Around the year 1999 I got a free IIci from someone. And I enjoyed setting up Appletalk networks and doing all sorts of stupid shit. Later on I lost my interest in these old Macs and told my mum she could take them to the skip (The classic had also died, but now I think it was probably just bad capacitors.)
My dad and I have this system that I always inherit his old computers (currently my most modern system is a CUBE G4,when will my dad grow tired of his G5?).
Through this system I am the proud owner of:
A TAM spartacus (Yes, my dad bought it full price!)
A Powerbook G3 233Mhz (My dad got this one for free from Apple because the TAM logicboard had been replaced three times!
This is the Mac I got most joy out. I lived through my student years (2002-2006), went to Syberia with my girlfriend who wrote her thesis on it (2007). Helped me in my previous job as a store manager (2008-2010). Currently it is left behind their and they still use my excell for making work plans.
And now I have the Cube.
Since September I have a new job and follow evening school java coding. And so my interest peaked once again for old school macs. A week ago I bought the following for the princely sum of 50 euro:
Takes deep breath
Performa 460 (LCIII+) (yay always wanted an LC) (very cool system, ony problem is that it has bad capacitors sound just like a kettle)Does this machine has a problem with 1GB drives I tried to install several but without any succes. Is it possible to and an fpu, there seems to be an open socket?
IIci (once again) with chache card and apple videocard 670, sadly it has only 4MB ram.
Powermac 6100/66 (can't boot this one with the weird monitor connector looks like a pretty cool machine).
Powermac 8200/120 (this one boots but nothing on screen, all the ram and video ram has been taken out, can this be the reason?)
Powermac 7200/90 (same as above)
Powermac 6400/200 Boots nicely but has had it harddrives taken out.
Powermac 6500/275 (same as my TAM, boots nicely, and surfs the web with icab currently has 8.5 installed)
I'm probably only going to keep the LC460,IIci,and 6100/ 6500.
Believe me, I'm pushing my luck here with my girlfriend in our small apartment.
It really feels like coming home! O how I prefer system 7 over OSX! I still now all the tricks and stuff.
Well enough jibberjabber for now!
Hi all,
This is Thomas from Belgium. Let me tell you my MacStory...
My dad bought a Quadra 840av in 1994 to use in his office as a medical doctor. Naturally i was drawn to this fabulous machine and kept messing about when he was not home. A year later he bought a Powerbook Duo (which was stolen from his office a few months later.) When my dad grew weary of my infernal experimenting and game playing, he bought a secondhand Mac Classic 4/40 and a LASERPRINTER for me. Initially I was disappointed by the downgrade. But still the machine gave me hours of pleasure (chipmunk basic anyone?). On the game side it was rather meager: At the time there were very few stores who carried mac gear and certainly no games that ran on my poor Classic. Luckely I discovered the early internet in a CyberCafé so I could download and install some abandonware and shareware. A year later I bought a secondhand Amiga 500 which I could get kazzillions of games for. Around the year 1999 I got a free IIci from someone. And I enjoyed setting up Appletalk networks and doing all sorts of stupid shit. Later on I lost my interest in these old Macs and told my mum she could take them to the skip (The classic had also died, but now I think it was probably just bad capacitors.)
My dad and I have this system that I always inherit his old computers (currently my most modern system is a CUBE G4,when will my dad grow tired of his G5?).
Through this system I am the proud owner of:
A TAM spartacus (Yes, my dad bought it full price!)
A Powerbook G3 233Mhz (My dad got this one for free from Apple because the TAM logicboard had been replaced three times!
This is the Mac I got most joy out. I lived through my student years (2002-2006), went to Syberia with my girlfriend who wrote her thesis on it (2007). Helped me in my previous job as a store manager (2008-2010). Currently it is left behind their and they still use my excell for making work plans.
And now I have the Cube.
Since September I have a new job and follow evening school java coding. And so my interest peaked once again for old school macs. A week ago I bought the following for the princely sum of 50 euro:
Takes deep breath
Performa 460 (LCIII+) (yay always wanted an LC) (very cool system, ony problem is that it has bad capacitors sound just like a kettle)Does this machine has a problem with 1GB drives I tried to install several but without any succes. Is it possible to and an fpu, there seems to be an open socket?
IIci (once again) with chache card and apple videocard 670, sadly it has only 4MB ram.
Powermac 6100/66 (can't boot this one with the weird monitor connector looks like a pretty cool machine).
Powermac 8200/120 (this one boots but nothing on screen, all the ram and video ram has been taken out, can this be the reason?)
Powermac 7200/90 (same as above)
Powermac 6400/200 Boots nicely but has had it harddrives taken out.
Powermac 6500/275 (same as my TAM, boots nicely, and surfs the web with icab currently has 8.5 installed)
I'm probably only going to keep the LC460,IIci,and 6100/ 6500.
Believe me, I'm pushing my luck here with my girlfriend in our small apartment.
It really feels like coming home! O how I prefer system 7 over OSX! I still now all the tricks and stuff.
Well enough jibberjabber for now!
