niccyb
Member
First off, I would just like to say that the 6500/300 is one of my favourite PPC macs - probably because of the great audio (subwoofer!), relatively powerful CPU and the great case design. Maybe also the fact that it's the only non-road apple in the 6x00 series 
. A few days ago I purchased a damned fine specimen off ebay for a respectable $15. Feeling happy with my purchase, I paid immediately and set up a pickup date. When I went over to pick it up however, I was bewildered to see the seller had also included several boxes of cables, drives, a 17" Coloursync monitor and even a nice Epson Photo 700 printer. Feeling particularly lucky, I (much to the annoyance of my father) loaded the whole setup into the car and drove off with ideas of what do do with the 'junk' running through my head. Once we arrived home, I had a closer inspection of what was included, and much to my delight found a huge library of older software, original cd's and the computer's manuals. I got the computer plugged in and set up, and it booted 9.04 hitch-free. I discovered it was in pretty much stock configuration, bar a memory upgrade (96mb in total), with a 4gb HDD and the original CD-ROM. I quickly got it set up with 128mb of RAM, a 20gb IDE HDD and a nice 52x CD-Burner. After a bit more testing I discovered that the included printer was in great working order, and even included 2 spare cartidges. I've now got the machine set up as a printer/file server running 9.1, and use it regularly for CD ripping/playback with iTunes 2.04. It's my favourite Pre-G3 PPC mac in the house by far, and has achieved a level of usefulness in the home setup never before reached by a computer of its age.
. A few days ago I purchased a damned fine specimen off ebay for a respectable $15. Feeling happy with my purchase, I paid immediately and set up a pickup date. When I went over to pick it up however, I was bewildered to see the seller had also included several boxes of cables, drives, a 17" Coloursync monitor and even a nice Epson Photo 700 printer. Feeling particularly lucky, I (much to the annoyance of my father) loaded the whole setup into the car and drove off with ideas of what do do with the 'junk' running through my head. Once we arrived home, I had a closer inspection of what was included, and much to my delight found a huge library of older software, original cd's and the computer's manuals. I got the computer plugged in and set up, and it booted 9.04 hitch-free. I discovered it was in pretty much stock configuration, bar a memory upgrade (96mb in total), with a 4gb HDD and the original CD-ROM. I quickly got it set up with 128mb of RAM, a 20gb IDE HDD and a nice 52x CD-Burner. After a bit more testing I discovered that the included printer was in great working order, and even included 2 spare cartidges. I've now got the machine set up as a printer/file server running 9.1, and use it regularly for CD ripping/playback with iTunes 2.04. It's my favourite Pre-G3 PPC mac in the house by far, and has achieved a level of usefulness in the home setup never before reached by a computer of its age.
