Performa 400

[heebiejeebies]

Good morning,

I am still looking for a colour machine that can run system 6. I've noticed that the Performa 400 is really an LC II wearing a false moustache. Apple's specs say that it cannot run system 6, but then it says that about the LCII as well (yet apparently that model can). I suppose they're exactly the same model, but the Performa 400 was released about a year after, in September '93 - I'd be somewhat surprised to find that a machine released that late still ran 6. Anyone happen to know before I buy it?

Thank you [8D]

 

[LCGuy]

To my knowledge, they have the exact same mobo, just set to a different Getstalt ID, so there's no reason that 6.0.8 shouldn't work on it, and even if it doesn't work, you can use a program like Wish I Were to change the Getstalt ID to that of an LCII, and it'll be a proper, ridgy-didge LCII.

 

[heebiejeebies]

Hooray! ;D

 

[LCGuy]

Btw, if you need a copy of Wish I Were, and can't find it on the net (i'll check gamba), i can hook you up.

 

[LCGuy]

Here ya go

Thanks to Gamba.

 

[heebiejeebies]

Hooray! ;D

Thanks mate [8D]

 

[Scott Baret]

Correction--the P400 was released in September 1992, not 1993.

 

[heebiejeebies]

Then Low End Mac is wrong. According to them, they were only sold for one month!

 

[equill]

LEM (was it under DK's byline?) seems to have a grand contempt for the year portion of dates. The 512Ke had a brief career also, according to LEM.

de

 

[Scott Baret]

I've seen A LOT of books, sites, etc. get the 512Ke wrong. It was discontinued in September 1987.

 

[heebiejeebies]

I finally received it this week. Strangely, just the fact that I was using an LCII with its impotent little startup chime and one of those 14" trinitrons really took me back. 14 years melted away. And it does run system 6 without needing Wish I Were, but for some reason, same as my SE/30, when you start up from floppy in 6, the hard disk doesn’t show up. Any ideas?

 

[tomlee59]

What system version do you have on the HD?

 

[heebiejeebies]

6 on the SE/30, 7.5 on the LCII.

 

[applefreak]

but for some reason, same as my SE/30, when you start up from floppy in 6, the hard disk doesn’t show up. Any ideas?

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=15582

http://homepage.mac.com/chinesemac/earlymacs/disk_images.html

http://homepage.mac.com/chinesemac/earlymacs/index.html

HD : MFS or HFS ?

or with partitions

macintosh IIci, good mac with color display running syst 6 & 7