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I just got a PowerMac 6100/66 DOS, what to do with it...
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What should I do with it? Figure out some way to hook it to the net and use it as a dumb terminal? Blow it up? Gut it and stick a Mini in it?
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Whatever you do with it, it will be a dog. The x100 series PowerMacs were horridly slow. There were many instances where the previous 68k Macs were faster.
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Install all the old shareware games you can fit in it
Classic DOS Games
Connect to TV through the video-out connector.
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Other than classic games, the doorstop is the best idea.
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The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!!!
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tattoo a photo of it on your arm
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He could do that, but then we'd never hear the end of it from his mom.
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I hope you got it for free.
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Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan 
He could do that, but then we'd never hear the end of it from his mom.
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I like chicken
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Meow Mix, Meow Mix
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Paint it pretty colors and hang it on the wall.
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
Whatever you do with it, it will be a dog. The x100 series PowerMacs were horridly slow. There were many instances where the previous 68k Macs were faster.
Indeed. I had a 6100 running alongside my Quadra 700 for a while. Man was that thing as far from an "upgrade" as could have been.
And people here thought the PPC/Intel transition was tough.
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I have an old 6300 here. I’d love to have some fun with it now and then, but the showstopper is the missing ethernet connection. 
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
Indeed. I had a 6100 running alongside my Quadra 700 for a while. Man was that thing as far from an "upgrade" as could have been.
And people here thought the PPC/Intel transition was tough.
It was, OS 9 doesn't run on Intel 
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I had a 6100/66 DOS Compatible.. I replaced the 486DX266 on the PC card with a DX4100 and upgraded the ram on the card to 32MB. Had windows 98 running on that thing Alongside MacOS 8.1 it ran well. Used it grades 9-11 running off an old 33.6 USR Modem.
Your best bet for it would be to install like Windows 95 on that thing and use it for old school games or throw an old copy of some nix version on it to see what u can do with the pc compatibility card in it.
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Ah the 6100.. slowest Mac I've ever used. The 7500 was one of the nicest Macs I've ever used. Get a 7500.
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
Whatever you do with it, it will be a dog. The x100 series PowerMacs were horridly slow. There were many instances where the previous 68k Macs were faster.
Probably because of how much of the OS ran in emulation at the time. If you put 8.1 on it, I bet it would beat the 68k Macs handily.
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Turn it into a DNS server so you you more reliable DNS then your ISP offers. Use it as a script server to run backups, backup your website, etc. running it as a command line Interface, it would do plenty and be very usable.
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
Probably because of how much of the OS ran in emulation at the time. If you put 8.1 on it, I bet it would beat the 68k Macs handily.
Nope, they were still dogs. We had them in the labs up till the 8.5 era. I think the architecture of the x100s just wasn't that great. The x200s, x500s, and x600s were all great PowerMacs though.
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No they weren't. The 5200 series was horrible. Easily worse performance than the x100 Power Macs.
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The 6200 and 7200 weren't exactly keepsakes either.
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Actually, it appears that the 5200 and 6200 are considered by many to be among the worst Macs ever made.
I never thought the 7200 and 8200 were that bad, but they seem to have managed to make the Road Apples list.
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i collect imacs and send them to third world countries, www.introducingimacs.org is my weblog (in dutch) i am currently in sri lanka for 44 days
the minimum i send is g3 with usb. everything older (like beige) is museum quality and sending them to people would only confuse them as all the old ports and OS's are dead.
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If I could get to photobucket I would show you guys the 'ethernet port'
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looking forward to some 'ethernet port' loving!
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Originally Posted by Peter
looking forward to some 'ethernet port' loving!
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Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
If I could get to photobucket I would show you guys the 'ethernet port'
I know exactly what you're talking about, it's called AAUI-15. You can pick up an adaptor that will change that to a 10BaseT port for a few bucks on eBay.
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There were 5200s and 6200s? I was only familiar with the 7200. It was better than any x100 we had, can't speak for any other x200.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
I know exactly what you're talking about, it's called AAUI-15. You can pick up an adaptor that will change that to a 10BaseT port for a few bucks on eBay.
giggity giggity.
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I have one of those sitting in my closet at home. I should do something with it...
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
I knew that as a Performa. When I think of the older PowerMacs, I think 6100, 7x00, 8x00, 9x00.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
I know exactly what you're talking about, it's called AAUI-15. You can pick up an adaptor that will change that to a 10BaseT port for a few bucks on eBay.
thanks for the tip 
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At the printers I used to work at there was a stack of 6100's in the store cupboard. They had come out of some sort of 'business clearance' sale or something. The reason they where stacked in the cupboard, while the design side of the business was done on ageing non PPC hardware, was that whatever dumass had split them from the monitors (to create two lots) had unplugged the adapter cables along with them.
If you think the 'ethernet port' is freaky, C.A.T.S. should do the same for the 'monitor' socket.
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
I knew that as a Performa. When I think of the older PowerMacs, I think 6100, 7x00, 8x00, 9x00.
The Performas were just the consumer bundle version that came with some extra software and stuff. Just like the 680x0 Performas were mostly LCs and Quadras with some extra stuff thrown in.
There was a Performa 61xx line too, which was basically a Power Mac 6100 plus a monitor and a software bundle, with a few different configurations.
I think they did the "Performa" stuff just to be confusing.
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
My uncle had one of those machines and yes, they were really bad.
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Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
What should I do with it? Figure out some way to hook it to the net and use it as a dumb terminal? Blow it up? Gut it and stick a Mini in it?
Specs:
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OS 9
Pics to come soon.
Find someone who CAN use it and give it to them.
My nephew (at 16) learned a lot from working on a toilet-seat ibook with OS 9 and OS 10.1 . I'm sure some kid, somewhere, would like to spend a few months playing with an old mac. If it has OS 9, there's plenty of stuff to do with it.
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Geez, looks like a scene from a sex tape.
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Oh yeah baby, show me that port of yours...
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Oooo a female port 
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That was my first Mac. *sigh*
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I like the idea of a tatoo but not on the arm
I'm afraid to ask where else on your son you'd prefer a tattoo.
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