My first Mac was a PPC 6100/66AV. It still works. I keep it around for Fontographer only. That works pretty sweet with two monitors! The ONLY problem with that is transferring files to a new mac. It HAS to be over a network connection. Not Floppy, Syquest, Zip drive, CD, wireless usb device... ethernet is my only common denominator.
Is there an adb to usb adapter I wonder?!? SCSI to usb? Parallel to USB?
my first power mac was a 6100/60, then a 6100/66. Then a 7100/80! My First mac was a used and well loved Plus from Value Village in 1996. THat is what switched me to the mac!:love2:
I had a 6100 I really loved, upgraded it to a G3 eventually. Moved up to a 7300 (NICE machine!). We still have an iBook G4 that's currently in for repair, and I had a snow iMac G3 700Mhz for a couple of years as well.
I love the Intel line, but there were a number of great PowerPC Macs.
My first mac was a Classic color, then came lc and then the lc 630, then mp 266 and boosted to a dp 1.8 G5 ppc. All still running and still using them for old games except for my G5 of course. But all running :clap:
No Mac, at least, no PPC-based Mac from Apple that I know of, shipped with a Parallel Port*; the other poster must have mistaken the SCSI port for a PC-standard Parallel Port.
*I'm pretty sure that some of the later-era CHRP-based clones from Motorola like the StarMax 6000 which were just being shipped or close to shipping status before the clone era ended had PC-standard Parallel, Serial, and PS/2 ports.
No Mac, at least, no PPC-based Mac from Apple that I know of, shipped with a Parallel Port*; the other poster must have mistaken the SCSI port for a PC-standard Parallel Port.
*I'm pretty sure that some of the later-era CHRP-based clones from Motorola like the StarMax 6000 which were just being shipped or close to shipping status before the clone era ended had PC-standard Parallel, Serial, and PS/2 ports.
None of the Clones I own have parallel ports but I haven't seen a 6000 and my Starmax 3000 does have PS/2 ports for a keyboard and mouse so anythings possible.
My first Macintosh was my IIsi in 1991, which I received for Christmas. I remember being disdainful of Macs before that, but I was quite impressed with System 7. I used that through High School and into University, until I got enough money to buy my beige G3 desktop soon after they were introduced in 1997. That was my first, and only, PowerPC Macintosh, and one I continue to use to this day. If I buy an iMac sometime before Spring, I'll own a Macintosh with every processor type ever used; Motorola 68k, PowerPC and Intel x86. Kinda neat, I think.
My first Mac was an LCIII in 1993. Other Macs I've owned or still do are....A powerbook 180c, Quadra 900 (found sitting on a dumpster! ), and a p.o.s Performa 6200. That 6200 pissed me off at apple so much that I refused to buy another Mac until I fell in love with my current Macbook pro 15".
It's a pity that the 6200 ruined your experience. There were some really good machines that Apple turned out, just that whole dirty mac series happened to be mass-produced, so it reached a lot of people. I'm glad I stuck with my IIsi as long as I did...
My first powerPC was a 7100. What a change fromthe LCII before it. I had the video card with max VRAM and was running a 14" and a 17" apple monitors right out of the box.
After that I also had 2 starmax 3000's and a PB 1400. My kids used the StarMax's. The PB 1400 was to replace a Duo 230 & docking station that were stolen.
One Starmax died. I still have the other one, the 7100 and the PB 1400. The 7100 and the PB1400 are both upgraded. I am typing this on the PB 1400. I am looking for an accelerator for the Starmax. I had purchased on on Ebay but it was DOA . Vendor claimed it wasn't, but 6 months later I still see him selling one there.
I use my 12" G4 1.5 Ghz PowerBook on OS X 10.4 most of the time, but I really enjoy using the older machines. My only rule is that I have to have some use for them ... Otherwise I would just pack rat a bunch of them away.
One Starmax died. I still have the other one, the 7100 and the PB 1400. The 7100 and the PB1400 are both upgraded. I am typing this on the PB 1400. I am looking for an accelerator for the Starmax. I had purchased on on Ebay but it was DOA . Vendor claimed it wasn't, but 6 months later I still see him selling one there.
Hmmm what died on the Starmax, maybe I can help you get it going again?
The accelerator I have in my 3000 is the JoeCard G3 for the Starmax 3000,4000,5000 that I picked up years ago from OWC on a clearance. It was also supposed to work in the 4400 Mac. I didn't find it a lot faster, perhaps because it was installed in the cache slot and it took a bit of hunting to find the drivers for it as it didn't come with them. It also had switches that had to be set for it to work properly.
Kevin
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