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Dang, I remember using a 6100/66 back when they were brand new, PowerPC, mmm.

I love to hear of old Macs chugging along.

Of course, it because of people like you and dvpierce's grampa that Apple's market share is languishing 

Dang, I remember using a 6100/66 back when they were brand new, PowerPC, mmm.

I love to hear of old Macs chugging along.

Of course, it because of people like you and dvpierce's grampa that Apple's market share is languishing 

Languishing, smanguishing!  If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  I've got Mac IIfx's, IILC's, Quadras-they all run perfectly and make great back ups.  I've got some road apples (Performa 5215CD and a Power Mac 5260) that my to kids still use to get on the internet no doubt.  I own a G4 running 10 but I'm most comfortable with a newly acquired 6500/300 running 9.1 and I will be using it for the next 10 years.  (Bought it and an Applevision 850 Display for $60.00 with system 9.1 installed!)  Buying a new computer and updating a system costing well over $100.00 every year or two is down right stupid.    There are enough resellers around to keep us going for a long time.  I've yet to be given a reason that makes sense for Apple-upping.  There is an age old reason for Apple Market Share Languishing (if it actually is) and that is *still* poor management!

I knew you were joshin' Apelock.  The speed of those vintage systems.........What a wonderful thing.

Ahh the good ol 6100/66. I used one of these for a few years in high school doing design for the yearbook. A great machine. I believe we also had 486 chip in it as well.

Snookie wrote:

Ahh the good ol 6100/66. I used one of these for a few years in high school doing design for the yearbook. A great machine. I believe we also had 486 chip in it as well.

That would've been the 6100/66 DOS Compatible. I got hold of a DOS Compatible about two years ago in a pile of old mac stuff that the local Catholic school was selling at a fete. It runs like a dog with 8.6 and 32mb of RAM, but it still is cool to own in any case, considering it was the first PPC, and it is even cooler that it has a PC running inside it! I only paid $20 for it so I can't complain...
In any case I wouldn't get rid of it for the world.

Happy 10th birthday 6100 and happy 10th birthday PowerPC!

Hip, Hip, Hooraaayy!!!!!!

Here's one for dvpierce. Just for the record the 6100/66 wasn't quite the first PowerPC based Mac. That honor go's to the original 6100 (just plain 6100) which ran at only 60mhz. This was replaced by the 66mhz model after a couple of months.

dinerfan wrote:

The very first 6100 is in fact named 6100/60; says so on the label on the front of the machine.

6100/60 -- what a great geeky name for a computer.

Loved my 6100/66!  It had the 486 DOS card in it.  Boy, did Windows 3.1 appear crude next to Mac OS 7.X or 8.0!

Happy 11th to the 6100/66 - 0 crashes, only money spent was for paper (but I will need more ink for the color stylewriter 2500.)  The sun has set on Apple's move to RISC processors!  Did the 680x0 emulator have a name?  For those who fear that keeping this running is bad for Apple's bottom line - I have purchased the last revision in the Apple family tree that can still run classic - a G5 iMac!  I'm still running 3 "mission critical" pre OS X apps (and one expensive SCSI device.)

not any more, he bought an imac.

::scowls at loafer's zombie thread, doesn't lock it because it's his thread and it's on topic::

The machine running my website also turns 10 this year.  It's a Motorola StarMax 3000/160MT.  It's had a memory upgrade (32MB to 96MB), hard drive replacement (the original 2.5GB, still in the case because it's too much trouble to get out, was replaced with a 30GB drive), USB and Ethernet PCI cards have been added, and has run System 7.5.3, 7.6, 8.6, 9.1, and now runs Gentoo Linux.  But still running on that original 160MHz PowerPC 603ev.  I took it off my parents' hands when they replaced it with a G5 iMac last year.  It's one of the original Motorola clones, and we pre-ordered it from MacWarehouse before they had them in stock.

I also remember using the Power Mac 6100 DOS Compatibles.  When I was in high school, we upgraded the lab used for the programming class, which had been using Tandy 1000s, which first shipped in 1984 and used 8088 processors.  No hard drives, just two 5.25" floppy drives.  The Tandy's were replaced with the 6100 DOS Compatibles, as apparently the school had a deal where they could only buy computers from Apple or Gateway 2000, so we went with Apple even though they were pretty much just used on the PC side, running Windows 3.1.

RIP 6100/66
The 6100/66 had its 12th  birthday spent under my desk as it had been supplanted by a Pismo in the middle of 2006.  Today I had the IT department dispose of it and the original trinitron CRT.  Anyway the Pismo is rocking pretty well - 1GB RAM, 60GB disk, 11g wireless card, wireless mouse/keyboard, external 17 inch LCD, USB printer, palm dock, firewire backup system, external speakers.  There is one classic app (Helix Database RADE) that I am waiting on before I can replace it with an intel model.  Maybe secretly I am hoping for slow work by the programmers.
(I don't know why but I yanked the internal SCSI disk and the power supply on the 6100/66 before I let them take it to the junk yard.)

Last edited by loafer (2007-02-07 10:13 am)

Personally I've never thrown a mac away. (I've given away my mac plus and still own the se30, beige box and eyeMac G5 that I purchased with my own cash)  But this mac was owned by corporate and there are rules to be followed.  The Pismo is rescued, I've also rescued 2 5300 powerbooks and 2 Mac SE and given away one of each of those.  Yes... that totals 5 macs in my posession... most of them 20th century models.