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Seamus · Mar 20, 2003, 12:42 AM

I have a 200mhz performa 6400 lying around, and I was wondering if was possible to install OS X on this machine. I think there's a utility to fool the machine into thinking it's something else...but does this work with Jaguar?

Meadowfield · Mar 20, 2003, 06:07 AM

I am afraid I can't assist you with your OSX query, but it did fondly remind me of my old "ottoman" desktop of yesteryear! I thought that thing was sooo cool. Many folks criticized the design, but I still think it was classic Apple - sleek and functional and compared to this tank I'm writing on quite compact and, yes, much quieter. Hmm, I wonder where she is now... Come to think of it, what did I do with that old "pizza box?"

D'Espice · 07:00 AM

You could use XPostFacto which should trick OS X into thinking your computer is supported by X. However OS X will be unbearably slow and unusable on this Performa.

RealMadrid · Mar 20, 2003, 07:51 AM

I have done it with a 7300/200 and it works... as a test webserver, remotly admin'd through ssh.

Was a bit painful to install but now it does its job. dont�t know about your 6400 but on the 7300 (PPC 604e) it is only possible to go til 10.1.5. Jaguar is not able to run on those processors.

Good luck!

Todd Madson · Mar 20, 2003, 08:18 AM

I've got a 6400/180 in my basement with 80 megs of ram, the
L2 cache card and the original 1.6 gig drive. Don't even try,
it's not worth it. Track down a copy of BeOS if you want to
see a cool Unix like OS running fast on that thing, OS_X doesn't
have a hope on that thing.

That thing was so slow it ran Seti @ Home blocks in FORTY HOURS.
My G4/400 (a little over 200 mhz faster + altivec) did them in
just under five (2.03).

Seamus · Mar 20, 2003, 10:50 PM

I care not about speed. 10.1 works with XPostFacto on the machine, eh? Or is that only with a g3 upgrade card?

real · Mar 21, 2003, 01:23 AM

I have a backup server and file server where me and my GF store stuff that we dont want on our Laptops, Beige 333 runs great, The only thing is I wish it had a faster network interface. it been up for er... ever I have no idea I never touch the thing only remotly.
REAL

jukepiss · Mar 21, 2003, 02:41 AM

check out this site for more info on the 6400- http://www.zone6400.com

george328 · Dec 18, 2003, 12:29 PM

Reviving an old thread!

I'm thinking of dusting off an old Performa 6400/200 and making it into a music server of some sort. OSX seems out of the question but if I could run 9 fast enough, I'm hoping to run iTunes off of it. Looked around for upgrade cards, only thing I could find referenced to was the old Vimage card which no one carries anymore. I'm willing to toss around $200 or so in order to make this viable.

What do you think? Possible or abandon all hope?

btw- Tried looking on ebay for an upgraded processor, no luck. Sadly I also found out these poor machines are selling for $20 a pop.

Arkham_c · Dec 18, 2003, 12:52 PM

You know, the 6400 ran Linux pretty well. You could always use that. There are even some open-source tools that let you expose music to iTunes from a Linux box, although I've never used them personally.

CIA · Dec 20, 2003, 10:01 PM

What's the oldest machine anyone has managed to get any flavor of X running on?

Arkham_c · Dec 21, 2003, 08:41 PM

Originally posted by CIA:
What's the oldest machine anyone has managed to get any flavor of X running on?

I got an older release of OSX running on a 7500/100 before.

dtriska · Dec 22, 2003, 01:56 AM

Originally posted by george328:
Looked around for upgrade cards, only thing I could find referenced to was the old Vimage card which no one carries anymore. I'm willing to toss around $200 or so in order to make this viable.

This is all you can get for the 6400. It's $200 at OWC.