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Willie Effe
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on: January 31, 2008, 15:49
I got Mac IIci and PowerMac 9600, but not any idea how to use them practically  I can work on both but cannot get anything out of them - no USB, no modems, no LAN... and no floppy in my working PC. Whether there is the only use of them to play on?Any advice? |
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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252 
Reply #1 on: February 01, 2008, 03:41
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These links below will give you information on the two machines. The 9600 is much more upgradable. I don't think either one will run OS X ... The IIci for sure. But that is what this site is for, so you won't have to. Mac classic is much more efficient. http://lowendmac.com/ii/macintosh-iici.html http://lowendmac.com/ppc/power-macintosh-9600.html This post is being written on a machine older than the 9600. It gets used every day for web surfing, email and a few other things. EBay is your friend for finding upgrades and parts for both machines, the IIci especially. Have fun
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Willie Effe
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2 MB Posts: 2
Reply #2 on: February 01, 2008, 08:01
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Quote from: "Lichen Software" These links below will give you information on the two machines. The 9600 is much more upgradable. I need not neither upgrade nor making working mules of my Macs. They are my pets! The matter is that I cannot get out of them anything made on them. All results remain inside the machines. It's a pity. I started with OS CP/M-80 long ago so I feel comfortable with low-end computers. But still those are things in themselves. And no spares hundreds miles around... As for EBay - I'm in Russia, and far from Moscow - so to minimize problems means to determine them and their solutions first.  Trying having fun. Nobody tries to pull something out of Sony PS, but mine are not, so... I still hope.
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cr2032
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64 MB Posts: 81 
Reply #3 on: February 01, 2008, 14:16
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My first mac is 9600/200 and is being used til now. I connected it with a Pentium III 733MHz running Win 2000 by FTP. [I downloaded softwares and updates from this site. And some system 7 users here assisted and suggested me a lot to make my old macs become useful macs.] The 9600 should have an internal Lan 10M speed. May I know what OS are now inside the 9600 ? And what kind of software are inside the hard disk ? If your 9600 can be connected to the web, there are quite a lot of softwares can be used and to make the IIci works as well through the 9600 floppy (if IIci can not connected by Lan).
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Minimalist
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128 MB Posts: 186
Reply #4 on: February 01, 2008, 18:20
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Quote from: "Lichen Software"
The 9600 will definitely run OS X though I can't imagine why anyone would want to run OS X on it. My beige G3 will run OS X quite handily, but I prefer to run Mac OS 8.6 on it. Mac OS 8.6 provides a good solid environment for running the best of available Classic applications and it's not too resource hungry. Personally I don't bother with any 68k machine with less than a 68040 processor. However the one 68k Macintosh that I do own, a Quadra 700, runs System 7.6.1. It is my 'project' machine. Quote
Both of my Macs are connected to the Net. The Quadra 700 doesn't do any web surfing, but it does do Internet Relay Chat , Usenet newsgroups, and text-only email quite handily. The Quadra 700's main use is word processing and scheduling and it gets used almost daily. I do a fair bit of web browsing on my beige G3. I find Internet Explorer 5.1 and Mozilla 1.3.1 to be two quite capable web browsers for the Classic Mac OS.
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russman
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8 MB Posts: 12
Reply #5 on: February 01, 2008, 19:59
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The 9600 should have, if not a true LAN jack, an AAUI port that you can attach an adapter to that provides an ethernet port, that can be used to attach to another computer to get the data off the 9600. Also, you can get a USB floppy drive for your PC, that will sit externally and you can transfer files between with floppy disks. Good Luck!
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Minimalist
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128 MB Posts: 186
Reply #6 on: February 01, 2008, 22:12
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Quote from: "russman" The 9600 should have, if not a true LAN jack, an AAUI port that you can attach an adapter to that provides an ethernet port, that can be used to attach to another computer to get the data off the 9600. Every beige colored PowerMac with PCI slots shipped with an RJ45 Twisted-Pair Ethernet connector *and* an Apple AUI ("AAUI") Ethernet connector. This includes the Power Macintosh 9600 -- in all available configurations. Of course, merely having an Ethernet port does not necessarily mean that you have a "working" ethernet port. If you're running Classic Mac OS you can use just about any PCI Ethernet card that uses a Realtek 8139 chip. This will require that you install a driver of course, which is readily available on the Internet for free. There are also several Ethernt cards that were manufactured for use on the Power Macintosh computers that do not require third party drivers. For the latter cards, they are natively supported by Mac OS. If you're running Mac OS X you can use just about any PCI Ethernet card on the market. You should not run into driver issues with any version of Mac OS x. The same also applies when you're running Linux or *BSD on your PowerMac. Personally, I use an Apple branded 10/100 PCI Ethernet card in my beige G3 and have had no problems with it. I've also had luck with generic Ethernt cards using the Realtek 8139 chip.
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