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this-is-1984
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on: June 27, 2013, 05:42
Hi, I have never owned an Apple product before and have had no contact with the Macintosh platform since grade school. I am however very interested in computers and have wanted to get an old Macintosh for awhile. Recently I managed to acquire a Power Macintosh 6500/300. Which I figured would be fairly decent for running system 7, 8, and 9. I already had a communications slot ethernet card for those gen models but I got pretty much nothing else. I'm probably going to have a few questions over the next couple weeks as I'd like to get Mac OS 7 installed and Internet working on the machine at least. There are a couple things I'm sort of confused on from the get go and I hope this is a relatively friendly and patient community that will be able to help me get this machine fully running properly. |
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rlawson
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64 MB Posts: 92 
Reply #1 on: July 04, 2013, 18:32
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It's a fun hobby, especially if you remember these machines from your younger days. This site has a lot of resources. Another good site is macintoshgarden.org Hopefully your box has an ethernet connection, that'll make loading stuff a lot easier. Enjoy!
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this-is-1984
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4 MB Posts: 6
Reply #2 on: July 06, 2013, 00:57
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Thanks. I see that this is not the most active place. I do remember these from school. My class had a 6400/6500 and several 5200/5400/5500s. I don't remember their exact models. I originally wanted to pick up a 5400 but decided to get this one as its much more powerful and expandable. I have my first set of questions ready so I'll find the appropriate area on the the site and hope someone sees it.
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wmmullaney
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2 MB Posts: 3
Reply #3 on: August 05, 2013, 00:30
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Hi there, and welcome aboard. How are your adventures going? No, not the most active place, but I would challenge you to find a Windows 95 users forum with half the members  I run OS 7.6 on a daily basis for writing, streaming music, communicating with Newton, light web browsing, dialing up BBS's and printing with an ImageWriter. All on a 33mhz 68k Performa  The versatility of these machines and their operating systems is incredible, I hope you have a similar experience with yours.System 7 forever!
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jonpurdy
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Reply #4 on: August 05, 2013, 22:12
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Welcome aboard! The forums aren't the busiest every day but users typically log in anywhere from every week to every year, haha.
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marioman23
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1 MB Posts: 1 
Reply #5 on: August 15, 2013, 02:37
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I always liked the 6500. these were insanely fast, not to mention quite good looking. It's a good thing you have ethernet; I currently have a perfectly fine PowerBook 1400c, butwithout ethernet, I just can't get much done with it. Anyway, I'll most likely beon here at least a few times a week; I'm new, but knowledgable. Good luck!
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