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hoffo
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on: January 31, 2008, 02:09
Greetings to all - I'm Scott and this is my first experience with classic Mac OS! I am a recent (about three years now) convert to the wonderful world of all things Mac and am excited to have come across my latest acquisition - a Power Macintosh 5200. It came with OS 7.5 and I recently upgraded it to 7.6.1. I think it has 16MB of RAM right now - I've ordered a 32MB chip for it. I have a lot of learning to do so please forgive any newbie mistakes. Looking forward to hearing from you and to swap a few stories sometime! Till later, Scott |
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russman
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8 MB Posts: 12
Reply #1 on: February 01, 2008, 20:02
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Good luck with your mac. I assume you have used OS X. Well, they are actually very simalar in looks, but the classic mac OS is very different funtionally.
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Minimalist
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128 MB Posts: 186
Reply #2 on: February 01, 2008, 22:25
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The 5200 is a very poorly designed machine. It's large and heavy. It's slow. It allows very little opportunity for expansion. And, it's quite possibly one of the worst machines Apple ever released. On the plus side, it does make for a handy dandy lil' color television set for the bedroom or office. You'll definitely want to get at least 64 megabytes of RAM in that thing. I believe there are two 72 pin SIMM slots if I'm not mistaken. And RAM for these suckers is almost as cheap as the dust that collects inside of them. I would also consider running Mac OS 8.1 on this machine as opposed to System 7 of any variety. You'll want to get as much optimization out of this thing as is humanly possible. And that means using a version of System software that has as much native PPC code as possible without becoming too resource heavy. With OS 8.1 and the monitor set to its highest resolution of 832x624 at 256 colors, the 5200 is pretty good for basic office tasks like word processing, etcetera.
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hoffo
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4 MB Posts: 5
Reply #3 on: February 02, 2008, 00:14
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Hi! I'm pretty used to OSX - have a 12" PowerBook G4 running 10.4.11 and a Power Mac G5 dual-2.3GHz running same... I wanted the classic Mac to sync with my Newton MessagePad 2100 - thinking of also getting a WallStreet PowerBook for the ADB ports... although someone was telling me the Pismo was darn good too. I'd like to keep the 5200 running 7.6.1 as I don't really use it for much but to tinker with - I need to replace the CMOS battery next. How difficult a task is that? Thanks! Scott
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Minimalist
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128 MB Posts: 186
Reply #4 on: February 02, 2008, 01:11
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Replacing the battery in a 5200 is easier than changing your underwear. You just press the two little plastic tabs on the back cover to remove it. You may have to remove a screw if it's still there. Then you just slide the motherboard out by tugging on that little metal handle. Once you swap the old battery out for the new, you just slide the motherboard (excuse me, logic board in Mac speak) back in and reattach the plastic back cover. It takes less than five minutes.
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hoffo
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4 MB Posts: 5
Reply #5 on: February 09, 2008, 02:02
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Awesome! Got the Mac open and found the CMOS battery and numbers - it had a "Rayovac 840" in it - that's the correct one I would imagine, eh?
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #6 on: February 09, 2008, 04:04
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Quote from: "hoffo" Awesome! Got the Mac open and found the CMOS battery and numbers - it had a "Rayovac 840" in it - that's the correct one I would imagine, eh? Yes that's it - it should be stuck onto the motherboard with velcro. I'll second keeping 7.6.1, which will boot faster and feel a lot more responsive than 8.anything. You can use this site to find out all the fun things you can do with Mac OS 7, including watching and recording television. You can even record clips from a VCR or analog Camera (or TV I suppose) and convert them on a newer Mac for sharing on the web (like YouTube). Your computer may or may not have ethernet built-in. If it does, great. If it doesn't, you can find extremely cheap ethernet cards to install into these, called Comm Slot cards. When you have ethernet available, you can use these tutorials to configure a home network between your Mac OS 7 and Mac OS X computers: http://main.system7today.com/articles/leopard/index.html
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