I've realised that my 6100 is rubbish... :-(

[bluekatt]

added a G3 card os 9 is stil rubbish

 

[Unknown_K]

The SCSI bus of the 6100 is slow, a G3 cannot help that.

 

[pee-air]

Well, if you had a bunch of 6100 machines, you could do what this guy did: That's interesting. Of course, you'd have to surrender to your inner geek. ;D

Here's three guys that did something similar. Of course, they used a 7100 and three 6100's. Still cool though, IMHO. [] ]'>

Here's a link to the 6100 upgrade guide

 

[Maccess]

For the prices of beige machines these days, if you want a system 7 machine, then a PCI Powermac will be much better than a 6100. A 7x00 machine will run 7-9 and be a lot faster and more expandable and can run OS X. A 6100 can't.

I moved from NuBus PPC to PCI PPC. I gave them up, moved back to Nubus and Beige G3 PCI.

It's so difficult to find RAM (and expensive too) for PCI Power Macs. For what the RAM costs, I bought a used G3 PCI Power Mac that uses ultra cheap SDRAM (PC66, PC100 or PC133), then I purchased some 7100 NuBus PPCs for about $20, including an ultraclean machine that came from Genentech's clean room for general office work. The 72-pin Nubus SIMMs were also cheap and readily available

I need Mac Classic to run MS Office 98. No sense in sending more money to Microsoft to upgrade our perfectly working (and legit) Office 98 software.

 

[MacTV]

I agree with the others - you are looking at the 6100 through the prism of modern computing and that isn't fair.

And you keep harping on the fact that your 6100 is missing a bezel. Find one for it! It will feel better and so will you.

Yes, the video is a weak spot - but an AV card will give you those higher resolutions you crave and allow you to output to TV and digitize video.

My 6100 was a huge leap forward for me - at the time I was using an old LCIII. And in one step I could run regular Mac software, PowerPC Mac software, and PC software on the Dos card.

Maccess - thanks for that Japanese site - wow that person has done some killer mods on their 6100!

 

[Unknown_K]

If I was a mac user around the time the 6100 came out I probably would have purchased a new discontinued 950, 800, or 840av instead. The only thing the PPC had going for it when it was new was a kick butt FPU, which most people didn't need at the time. Remember that all the software that was out was 68K anyway, would take a long time for PPC native code to come out and take advantage of the PPC chip, and by that time PCI Macs would be out anyway (cheaper too I think).

 

[SiliconValleyPirate]

I suppose in another 7 years time I'll be having the G3 to G5/Intel transition crisis that some of you seem to be having now...

What crisis? I never had a crisis...

While we are on the topic of 6100s mine now has nestled in the PDS slot a G4/300 and a HPV card. It runs 9.1 quite sweetly actually - I hooked a 9GB Seagate Cheetah to it and stick 128MB RAM in. It'd make a decent retro-Photoshop machine I think, maybe with a nice lumpy SCSI scanner?

Yeh anyway, the 6100 was slow, had severely limited expansion, and suffered everything the 610 and 475/Q650 did (double-hard-boots because the PRAM battery wasn't working etc). I really think the entire 601 powered field, save for the 7500 because it was CPU upgradable, were dogs. Many of the early 603 machines were too. Apple took the PPC too early. They should have hung around and used 060s for a while then jumped to PPC with the 604 and 603/200 and upwards. They also should have gone with PCI and Open Firmware from the get-go. Anyone who used Sun machines at the time knew just how useful that was.

 

[Quadraman]

mine now has nestled in the PDS slot a G4/300 and a HPV card.

Can I be your friend? Those G4 cards for Nubus Powermacs are really hard to find these days.

 

[SiliconValleyPirate]

Sure you can... but I'm not gonna give it to you