RadRacer203 Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 Just picked up this Powerpc Mac clone yesterday and I was wondering what exactly it was. I got it for making disks/imaging drives on my compact Macs because it has ps/2 and vga and fits perfectly into my kvm setup. I know it's powerpc with something like 128mb ram but apart from that and it running OS 7.5 I have no idea whatsoever lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lobust Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 I have seen a couple of differently branded clones with that same case, so I have no idea who the oem was. PowerCity and Computer Warehouse (UK retailer of the time) Manhattan - if you google either of those you should find identical looking machines. CW machines as as far as I am aware used generic apple tanzania motherboards, idk about the powercity ones. I am not very familiar with any of the clones, maybe someone else knows more... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ScutBoy Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 Nice. I've always wanted to see more of the Boxx clones that came out of Germany(?) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Torbar Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 Can you post some more pics(back of the case, and inside)? Would be cool to see Nice find! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadRacer203 Posted December 31, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, Torbar said: Can you post some more pics(back of the case, and inside)? Would be cool to see Nice find! Will do when I get a chance! Gotta clean up this disaster of a basement after like 3 full carloads of computer stuff in a row lol. I actually just got an Amiga 2000, I wonder if this could make disks? I know my PC's can't Edited December 31, 2020 by RadRacer203 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Torbar Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 3 hours ago, RadRacer203 said: Will do when I get a chance! Gotta clean up this disaster of a basement after like 3 full carloads of computer stuff in a row lol. I actually just got an Amiga 2000, I wonder if this could make disks? I know my PC's can't Not sure about writing disks with a Mac, but there's a way to convert a PC floppy drive to plug into the parallel port of a PC, so you can write Amiga floppies http://m1web.de/ADTWin/#Cable Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Franklinstein Posted January 1 Report Share Posted January 1 Nice. Where did you buy it? Motorola was a major licensee of Apple and was permitted to sublicense to others such as Tatung, APC, Centralen Norrland, etc, so there were several makes with the same case but a different badge. The lack of badging here suggests it was sold in Europe by unauthorized resellers just after Apple decided to kill cloners: Motorola passed off all of their unsold computers to European vendors like Computer Warehouse and PowerCity (mentioned previously) for resale in overseas markets where Apple didn't have quite so much reach to be able to shut them down, at least not before they could clear out their stock. Sometimes the PowerCity badge doesn't stick very well (the models I found were too large for the recessed area so overlapped it) and have fallen off over the years. Really the only clue to their origin was the notice in German near the power supply. Anyway it's basically a Power Mac 4400 internally: maybe slightly faster, maybe slightly slower, maybe with a couple extra PCI slots; it really depends on the specific configuration which you won't know unless you run TattleTech and/or open the case. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RadRacer203 Posted January 1 Author Report Share Posted January 1 15 hours ago, Torbar said: Not sure about writing disks with a Mac, but there's a way to convert a PC floppy drive to plug into the parallel port of a PC, so you can write Amiga floppies http://m1web.de/ADTWin/#Cable Yeah, I saw that, I think I'm definitely going to try that or I saw another way to use an arduino and a pc floppy 4 hours ago, Franklinstein said: Nice. Where did you buy it? I got it from a prop guy in upstate NY actually. No idea on the story of how it got here. Thanks for the history on it, very interesting! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kitraxian Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 (edited) I wonder if this is a Umax, they made some apple clones for a while. *Does some googling* nope this is a motorolla one, just missing the label. Umax made some similar cases but this ones almost certainly Motorolla. Edited January 15 by Kitraxian Additional info Quote Link to post Share on other sites
demik Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 17 hours ago, Kitraxian said: I wonder if this is a Umax, they made some apple clones for a while. *Does some googling* nope this is a motorolla one, just missing the label. Umax made some similar cases but this ones almost certainly Motorolla. Yeah Umax always had their logo printed. They also had doors on most models. Looks like a Motorola. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jamie marchant Posted January 29 Report Share Posted January 29 I wonder why they went with VGA/PS2, would think that would confuse people.(I just got this Mac keyboard but it does not work on my clone). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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