Performa 600 restored

[imactheknife]

Got a performa with a bundle and got around to restoring this. Cleaned and recapped psu, cdrom, and logic board. Not a bad little system considering it is labeled a road apple

 

[joshc]

Performa 600 = Mac IIvi

The whole 'Road Apple' thing was a load of nonsense in my opinion. Low end/cheap Macs were compromised in some ways, yes, but that's why they were cheap. They still served a purpose and weren't as bad as the press made out.

 

[Daniël]

Performa 600 = Mac IIvi

Not exactly. It has the 32MHz 68030 of a IIvx, but lacks the cache like a IIvi.

 

[joshc]

They were based on the IIvi logicboard but have the CPU from the IIvx, yes. Just the beginning of Apple's nonsensical Performa line-up...

 

[volvo242gt]

Isn't the IIvx based on the IIvi board, but with the cache and faster CPU added? They aren't/weren't terrible machines. A bit crippled in some respects, compared to a IIci, bus speed-wise, but better than a IIcx or a IIsi. Easy upgrade to a 650 or 800 board for full-on Wombat greatness, though.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

And a CD-ROM drive. “Isn’t as good as a IIci” is no reason to hate on a perfectly good machine.

 

[volvo242gt]

Yep. They're all related in most respects. The cx, ci, vx, vi, 600/650/700/800 series machines are all alike for the most part. All of them, save for the 700, have three Nubus slots. They also have the same size logic board. Want a Quadra 800 that looks like a IIcx? Take said 800's board, swap it in, after modifying the back panel's port holes. Want a IIvi that will happily run programs that are 32 bit dirty? Take a IIcx board and swap it in, then add a Nubus video card.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Want a IIvi that will happily run programs that are 32 bit dirty?

What do you mean by this?

 

[volvo242gt]

The II, IIx, and IIcx have 32-bit dirty ROMs, just like the 68000 Macs and the SE/30. Some programs, like unmodified copies of Arkanoid and other games from the mid-late 1980s, require the early ROM code to work.

 

[imactheknife]

Yeah this cleaned up nicely, turned out to be a nice clean easy project.. just what i needed good info on the different systems that are related.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

The II, IIx, and IIcx have 32-bit dirty ROMs, just like the 68000 Macs and the SE/30. Some programs, like unmodified copies of Arkanoid and other games from the mid-late 1980s, require the early ROM code to work.

Ah makes sense.