Power Macintosh 7200/75

[Mac68000]

I know all that I heard about this machine is negative, but I wanted it for two reasons. A. It is an apple, and that is rare in my county. B.Only PCI 601 Mac.

It has 84mb of RAM and is running OS 8 on a 2gb Drive. Tons of software on board.

Adobe, Quark ETC.

And it was 5$ at the same store as the 6100. I guess the cleark priced them via the model number height.

 

[Bunsen]

It's not all that bad, certainly better than anything else with a 2 in the hundreds column. It only scores one out of four on Lowendmac's Road Apple scale.

Considering that one point is for shipping without VRAM or cache (easily fixed) and the expensive upgrade path (which was in fact $19.95 last time I checked - from Sonnet) it hardly deserves the opprobrium at all.

And a PCI 601 is indeed a curious beast. I shall have to investigate mine further.

LEM 7200 profile

 

[coius]

I have a PM 7200/90 and it works great. has 64MB RAM, and it's easy to fix the no-vram buy finding the cheapest video card you can get that is PCI and works in a Mac.

I pulled a video card with 2MB from a PowerMac 9500 and it works faster. The hard drive could also be upgraded. maybe a USB 1.1 card, ethernet, and you are doing great!

CD-ROM could be upgraded with either a DVD-RAM or CD-RW

 

[Bunsen]

Sonnet Crescendo/7200 G3 400 MHz with 1MB cache

[MG3-400-1M]

$19.95 (In Stock)

 

[Quadraman]

I know all that I heard about this machine is negative, but I wanted it for two reasons. A. It is an apple, and that is rare in my county. B.Only PCI 601 Mac.
It has 84mb of RAM and is running OS 8 on a 2gb Drive. Tons of software on board.

Adobe, Quark ETC.

And it was 5$ at the same store as the 6100. I guess the cleark priced them via the model number height.

Not quite true. The 7500 also came with a 601, but it was on a card so it's upgradeable. There was also an 8200, which was basically a 7200 in a 8x00 tower, but that wasn't sold in all markets.

 

[Bolle]

wooo lowest end PCI mac

 

[porter]

My 6100 runs MkLinux.

 

[MacMan]

The 7200/75 isn't a bad machine, I've possessed two of them in the past and they were decent workhorses for playing about with. Both were eventually given away to friends and family but as far as I know they are still in service.

It is interesting to note that the 7200 (along with the 7500) was the first model to use that case design with the fold-out power supply and drive rack. This design was later used in the G3 desktop.

 

[Franklinstein]

They're not that bad. Perhaps you're confusing them with the 6200 and 5200 series...

I like them, particularly because they have that little internal video bypass slot for the PC Compatibility card, which negates the need for an external video cable. Plus, unlike its NuBus predecessors, it has dedicated video RAM with a standard DB15 monitor port. They're really pretty decent machines, honestly.