Dumpster drive PPC finds!

[abbub]

Found a Power Computing 604/150 Mac clone and an Apple 7100/66av. The Power Computing system has a 2 GB HDD, a SCSI CD-ROM, an ATI video card, and 384 MB of memory. The Apple has a 700 MB hdd, a CD-ROM, a video card, and I believe 8 MB of memory (having actually fired it up yet).

 

[Baboon!]

Nice work; great for parts if nothing else. I hope your Power Computing setup is working.

 

[abbub]

Thanks. It works great.

This thread was supposed to be posted in conquest. I can't find any controls to delete it or move it. >sigh<

 

[Cory5412]

Moved to conquests forum.

 

[abbub]

Thanks, Cory!

Yeah, the Power Computing machine works fine, except the red and the blue are backwards for some reason. I don't know whether it's some sort of setting that I've missed, or if the video card has gone south. Other than the strange looking graphics, it seems to be working fine, now that I've replaced the fan in the power supply, which had the worse case of blown bearing I've ever seen on a computer fan.

The 7100/66av works fine, too. I upgraded it from 16 MB to 72 MB of memory (4 16MB sticks, and there appears to be 8 MB on the board?) The 700 MB HDD was completely dead, but I installed a 1 GB drive and it's working fine. I installed System 8.6 on it last night.

 

[Nathan]

According to http://lowendmac.com/ppc/power-macintosh-7100.html, the 7100 will take a max of 136MB of RAM with the proper configuration of sticks of RAM.

 

[abbub]

I'm probably not going to keep/use the 7100. The Power Computing system fits into my infrastructure a little bit better, and fills the gap for the missing System 8.6 machine a bit better. Also, it's working well with the KVM, and I probably won't be able to get the 7100 working well with either PS/2 or USB mouse/keyboard setups.

I did get the video working on the Power Computer box, and put a fresh copy of 8.6 on it. Aside from Internet Explorer 5.1 crashing the system, it seems to work well.