TheNeil
Well-known member
Landed a 6400 a couple of weeks ago via eBay and it finally arrived on Saturday. Ok so I thought I'd got a bargain as, for a mere £5, I'd snagged a 200MHz machine with 72Mb of RAM - WRONG!
When the delivery guy dropped it off it was making a horrible 'clunking' noise which didn't sound healthy so off came the case which revealed that a second hard drive (which I didn't know about) had been fitted but not bolted down (ouch - 2 days in the hands of DHL and rattling around all that time). Then came the surprise of seeing a pair of USB sockets on the back. The biggest shock though was seeing the Sonnet Crescendo card plugged into the motherboard. This '200MHz' machine is, in fact, a 400MHz G3 - the thing screams.
As if that wasn't enough, the unbolted hard drive (a 512Mb SCSI) still has life in it...never something to be ignored these days
When the delivery guy dropped it off it was making a horrible 'clunking' noise which didn't sound healthy so off came the case which revealed that a second hard drive (which I didn't know about) had been fitted but not bolted down (ouch - 2 days in the hands of DHL and rattling around all that time). Then came the surprise of seeing a pair of USB sockets on the back. The biggest shock though was seeing the Sonnet Crescendo card plugged into the motherboard. This '200MHz' machine is, in fact, a 400MHz G3 - the thing screams.
As if that wasn't enough, the unbolted hard drive (a 512Mb SCSI) still has life in it...never something to be ignored these days