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Operating System / Network Time Issues?
May 27, 2015, 04:44 |
Hey folks, Noticed on my kids' Performa 5215 that Network Time suddenly quit working. What initially happened was that the Performa got disconnected from the internet due to some network changes. When I reconnected, the time was off. Network time can "verify" that time.apple.com is a server, but it throws me an error when I try to update my time. Curious if it is something else in the system configuration. It used to work. I am running OS 8.1 on that machine, by the way. Anyone else having any issues with Network Time? |
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Operating System / Performa 5200CD
July 11, 2014, 23:15 |
Yes, whichever route you go, you will need to reinstall the system software. If 7.6.1 is the lowest you can go to run the software you want, it seems to be the best option. Discs can be hard to find. I've got a 5215, and it is a problematic machine. But it's useable and fun to tinker with. |
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New Member Welcome / Not Exactly New... But Here.
May 10, 2014, 17:14 |
Quick, philosophical update: I scavenged an old 3.1 GB IDE drive from some old PC at my work, and it is working fine. A slight upgrade over the 1 GB Quantum. Even though an 80GB IDE drive is like $8, I'd rather not spend any money on such an old machine. And frankly, the plastic on these machines are just so brittle. I've lost three-four plastic tabs without applying much of any force to them. Awful. I remain a big fan of 7.6.1, but I kept finding cryptic "hearsay" references to the stability of OS 8.1 or OS 8.5 on these frankenstein 52/62xx Power Macs. For example, Dan of Low End Mac tosses stuff like this out: Quote I have heard that the best upgrade for the Performa 6300 is Mac OS 8.1. This apparently improves stability and addresses some of the hardware issues which had hobbled the 6300 and its siblings. I suspect going to Mac OS 8.5 might further improve things. I am curious why this is the case, since 8.1 didn't dump all PPC code and isn't exactly overflowing with feature changes from 7.6.1. But after some minimal testing, it may be more due to OS 8's improved multithreaded finder, which overcomes, through software, some of the hardware limitations on these machines that meant while network data was incoming, you couldn't input keyboard text or other things (see this well-referenced article). That's at least my best guess. If you are willing to live without that, then 7.6.1 (and even 7.5.5) will still be very stable options. |
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New Member Welcome / Not Exactly New... But Here.
May 06, 2014, 01:15 |
I couldn't get my System 7.6 CD to boot for some reason, so I ended up going with OS 8.1. It's running fine, rather decently once I finished updates. I forgot how achingly slow installation could be on these old machines. I still wouldn't mind giving 7.6 a shot, because many of the old educational games that I use on this machine have some weird issues with Appearance Manager. We'll see. To modify the machine, I thought about throwing in an old external DVD drive I had lying around in place of the stock drive, but these machines are weird. Hard drive on IDE bus - CD drive on SCSI. Seriously, Apple, why didn't you just pick one and stick with it? Frankenmac. |
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New Member Welcome / Greetings from a new member (and a Q)
May 02, 2014, 17:29 |
This is good to know. I've contemplated setting up an email account for my daughter to practice sending messages to her grandfather, but I'm not going to bother if it is a pain to configure/find a working client. She's really too young anyway. Update us if you find a working solution. |
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New Member Welcome / Not Exactly New... But Here.
May 02, 2014, 17:28 |
Greets, I actually created an account sometime ago - don't remember if I introduced myself or ever posted. Someone in my church just gave us an old Performa 5215CD. I did not want to spend any money on an old Mac like this, but my kids had been playing some old education games, practicing their letters and numbers. This machine, while a bit of a dog, is serving fine in that capacity. I did spend $20 for some RAM to max it out. I followed System7's instructions and upgraded it to 7.5.5 with the various downloads since it was still running 7.5.1. So far, it's running fine with the stock 8 MB of RAM, which again will soon be upgraded to 64. It also has an ethernet card, which works beautifully. I already have an OS 8 CD, so I might go ahead and upgrade to that. With these poorly designed series of Macs (52xx), OS 8 is supposedly a little more solid option than 7. We'll see. I wouldn't mind staying at 7.5.5 though. Curious if anyone with experience on these Macs - have you compared and contrasted 7.6.1 and 8.1? |
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