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Hi!

My name is Timothy. I am 23 years old. For the past year, I have been struggling with a medical condition known as balanitis. It has been a difficult journey, but I have a friend that has helped me the whole way. It is a Macintosh Performa 6360. I discovered the Mac OS at an early age and have been hooked ever since. There is something about System 7 (specifically Mac OS 7.6.1) that makes it seem like pure perfection. The interface is simple yet effective, and there is a vast variety of software available for it. It really is a blessing that I discovered these forums. I think I will enjoy my stay. :)

 

ppuskari

Well-known member
Glad to have ya!

The first computer I bought with my OWN money in college was my trusty Quadra 630 - Nice sum of 1200.00 used from a Chinese lady on campus. That was 1992-1993 I think. I used that machine to replace a Mac II that I had pieced together from scraps of machines from University Surplus. That Mac II also was the first machine in central Ohio to have the newly released Pinnacle RCD-1000 2x CD burner on it too. I paid 2019.86 for that drive back then. The drive was worth more than the Mac II, and the Quadra 630 combined!

The Macintosh II, the Quadra 630 AND the Pinnacle RCD-1000 Scsi drive still work great to this day. 2010 Wow.

The Quadra 630 however was "upgraded" to a Peforma 6300 series to more or less match what you have. Yes they are very nice machines and I will always have a soft spot for them. They got me through some very hard times back then.

Does yours have the TV/AV tuner system in it? I used my machine for a while with a vcr as my main TV for a while too.

Cheers!

 

Macflyer

Active member
Welcome to the forums.

Good to see younger folks picking up the same interests. Me, not a frequent poster here but certainly reading along. I got myself into classic Macs some years back when I picked up a Plus with external HD.

I assure you, it won't be the only machine you're running right now. I call another Plus my own now, a SE/30, two 520c (one with a PowerPC upgrade), and I'm awaiting a 1400 Powerbook. There's a third 520c PB waiting for me with almost full RAM (28 MB).

The Plus has become a bare bone typewriter. I can transfer files on disk to the 520c which is hooked up to my home network. Printing to a lpr queue on Windows which in return prints to a ghostscript emulation printer which in return dishes out beautiful documents on my physical non-postscript laser. This has put my vintage macs back into serious word processing business, something they always have excelled at.

I even use the 520c on the go since my other modern laptops all have bitten the dust and couldn't see me spending more money to fix them.

System 7 is neat and with open transport networking works great.

 
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