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what can I do with an old Performa 5200 aio?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Paris
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It just sits there... sometimes, once every few months, I turn it on.
Has a couple old games... I even installed Office98 on it
only has 16MB ram though... bummer.
aquairum? there would certainly be more space for fish than an old Classic/SE.
what else can I do that would be USEFUL?
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Garden of Paradise Motel, Suite 3D
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Bump it up to 64M using two unmatched 32M FPM SIMMs (72-pin). Most machines use matched SIMMs, so you can sometimes find unmatched ones pretty cheap.
Put a TV card and an AV card in it, and get one of the little black remotes, and use it as a TV. It's perfect for that. You can also use it to play back VideoCDs, providing you find one of the Apple MPEG cards for it. You can get VideoCDs of the latest releases at http://www.coolvcd.com .
It makes a great machine for a kid or someone who doesn't have one. So before you trash it, check out maybe giving it to someone who can use it.
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He can be fixed -- you can't.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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whats better than an aquarium? nothing! but if you dont like the fish swimmin around, go for a desk lamp, or, better yet, give it to me to make a tank out of it 
btw, had anyone know where i can get a MacQuarium for cheap (less than 100 $), please email me 
macquarium@abakadoosh.com
[ 07-26-2001: Message edited by: saviorass ]
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Break yourself down and suck my floppy drive
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: New York
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I like the TV idea, but it might look better if you painted the whole thing black, but some people say that's not safe.
I bought that remote for my 6400 a couple years ago. I have the 200MHz one, but not the TV card. The remote is pretty cool. It's this skinny black thing that has a little white apple logo on it. It controls the power, volume, CD, and TV tuner. Before I got that I was using a universal remote to control the machine, but I don't think that there's any way to get the CD track skip buttons to work on one of those, so I could play, pause, and stop CDs, but not skip tracks. I was frustrated with that so I bought the real remote but I never use the thing. It was a good waste of $20, and then I had to pay $10 shipping on top of that because of Sun Remarketing's brilliant online store that charges you more than you see on the screen.
A few years ago before I got a cable modem in the house I used to use the remote to turn on and off the computer from bed. That was cool, but after broadband entered the house the machine stays on 24/7, even though it really serves no purpose other than to burn CDs.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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You can donate the computer to me as I love to collect Mac's...
Ha a small little idea.... jmb95@earthlink.net
Love your Mac... 
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<Capuchin>
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Or:
Jump on eBay and look for a 5400/6400 logic board. Throw in a L2 Cache card G3 upgrade, and you've got yourself the poor man's G3 AIO.
With a little tweaking you should be able to get LinuxPPC running on that hog in no time. OSX might be trickier ;-)
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