Anyone got a Mac that can't do OS X (given that it's working)? Or one that runs OS9 and OSX side by side?

I got a beige G3 (mmm, I wish I had the adapter that let you hook it up to a VGA monitor, though), and two Power Mac 5500's (utter crap due to insufficient RAM, craptastic processor, no USB, and lack of OS8.6 discs; I'm going to see what I can do with Linux on them... especially since one used to be a teacher workstation with composite video out jacks). Currently they all run 9.2.2

I had an old Apple ][e back in the day. I think my parents sold it...

i've got my old iBook G3 800 MHz that runs Ubuntu. I still use it, but only for testing if my apps work right on PowerPC.

Original Mac 128 from 1984, also a Mac IIsi (early 90's) and a PowerComputing 120 (1996). My Powerbook G3 Wallstreet (1999) runs OSX.

Power Macinthosh 6100/66 - 66Mhz, 72 MB EDO-RAM, 4.5 GB SCSI Harddisc and CD-ROM running Mac OS 8.6

im looking for a G4 Powerbook Titanium - 400 or 500 Mhz with 1GB RAM and about 20 GB harddrive - you can get them very cheap. about 300-400 Euros. maybe i'll get one of these in the future and throw away me ol' 6100/66

because sereously you can't do anything with it. not even surfing

Edit: Oh, sorry i meant 6100/60 with 60 Mhz... my first PC was a pentium (socket 6) with 66 Mhz... really crap - that was abou '96

i got a power macintosh 5400/180...603 ppc cpu, 48 Mb ram, 1.5 gb hdd, os 9.1
i also got a power macintosh 7100/66...don't know the cpu #,250 Mb hdd, os 8.5, 64 Mb ram

the 5400 can do surfing.. a bit slow..i have a ethernet card in it and it worked in 8.6 but i upgraded to 9.1 and know it doesn't work...it's a Realtek 8029 (winbond chipset).

and now a beige g3

My legacy inventory is as follows:

- Apple IIc (works, but don't have any floppies for it.)

- Macintosh SE30 (running System 6, Word 1.x (I think), and MacPaint. I only keep it around to show Windows users that I had back in 86 what they finally got in 95. A desktop you could actually use. )

- PowerBook G3 Series (333MHz SCSI model. I know that's hardly legacy, but without Firewire it sure seems that way. I let my kids use it with a program called AlphaBaby, they love their laptop and they pretend to work like I do with mine.)

=)



Ouch, I forgot about the 66, I was thinking they started at 100MHz, but you're right. There was a 66MHz version. (Essentially a spiced-up version of the 66MHz 486DX-2) The first x86 chip actually I paid for was a 233 MHz Pentium (with MMX even!). I remember how fast Windows 3.1 ran on that!! Then I put Windows 98 on it and it started crawling... =(

Oh, I never liked Windows 98 or the Sloppy Edition that followed. Windows 95 totally ruled, because it ran great even on the 66MHz 486 I had.

(Anyone run A/UX? Now that was ahead of its time.)

More than ahead of it's time, it was foreshadowing...

I actually tried Linux circa 1995 ish, but being a Mac user I found it to be way too complicated. (Why rebuild the kernel? Can't I just install one that works?) Then Apple went and pulled BSD out of their hat and now I love the command line. Linux has gotten a LOT easier to use over the last 10 years... (I love SUSE 10.1) but it's still got a long way to go before it's a true Desktop OS for the masses. (IE: the casual computer user would find it still too technical to set up and configure in many cases.) Geeks yes, Granny's no.

Sorry, we got .



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Got an 7100@66 Mhz, and a 7300@166 originally, G3@400 add-on accelerator now. Plus a "pizza box" LC II.
I haven't experimented much with the 7100 due to its NUBUS configuration, but i still use it for its ProTools card.. As of the 7300 though, right after i got the G3 accelerator, I used XpostFacto to make it work with OSX. These machines (pre-G3 beige models) were not officially supported by Apple for OSX.
There's a company named Other World Computing that sells a lot of Mac hardware, and that's where i got my accelerator from. They are the same ones that offer the XpostFacto software for use with the newer processors.
And since you mentioned the VGA adaptor, if you can use the ebay, you'll find one very easily. What I did, since my 12-inch Apple monitor isn't anything to shout about, is this: I got a PCI Voodoo 3 3000 16MB graphics card PC version. Downloaded the equivalent Mac version BIOS for it, flashed the card with it, and have since been running swell with it. Both in 9.2.2 and in OSX under XpostFacto. That software allows you to use any graphics card you used with the 9 system under the same machine.
XpostFacto brings up a dialog when you boot your machine and lets you choose which of the two operating systems you want to initiate.
I also got me a combo PCI USB 2 and Firewire card built by Sunix for ~ 40 euros that works well, and a Sonnet Ultra ATA 133 PCI controller to hook up any hard disk or optical drive that i want.
It might be a G3 400 mhz machine right now, but deffinitely a heavy-loaded one, and does the job well!!

Hmm. We have a whole lockerful of old Macs going back to the 5mhz LISA with a 5mb hard drive. It could run Mac OS 6.0. Also some Starmax PowerPC clones. Just threw out a bunch of IIsi's and Performas LCII's. Used to overclock some older macs like the 7100/66 to a whopping 80mhz!!! We still use some B&W G3s, good for recording streaming radio shows all night. Also the old Powerbook 140 is still useful if you want to do serious writing without being distracted by internet, games or video since it's too slow to do any of that. Found one for $10 a few years ago!

Three month ago, as I moved, I had to get rid of my old Mac SE, SE30, quadra 650, powerbook 540c and a powermac 7500 with 112MB of ram.
I wish I could have kept my SE and my powerbook.

It's kinda funny to see a SE run MacOS 7.5 and word 5.0 with only 4MB of ram...
I also had photoshop 1 and 3, Illustrator 2, MacDraw pro,... and FlightSim 4 !
Plus a space shuttle simulator for mac 128.

I have my "Last of the G3 700" iMacs that I'm going to convert into a OS 9/Linux box. Sounds weird but I hope it works!

Well since someone accidentally trashed my Mac SE FDHD (8MHz, 4MB RAM, 100MB hard disk), I've got another Mac SE FDHD, except the screen is dead (8MHz + Total System 68030 accelerator, unknown speed, 3-4MB RAM, 40MB hard disk). Even a working one can't replace the old tinkerings I had on that system. Ah...nostalgia.

Well, for some reason OS 9 and Ubuntu Linux don't mix very well. So I had to make it an Ubuntu box. Now all I need to do is get a dial-up modem working (HELP, send PM so this doesn't go off topic) and then I can use it for things other than "Look, it's Linux!"

Have a Performa 5215 All-In-One that I had running Yellow Dog for a little while.

128K mac (not quite sure what its running.....)
SE/30 os7.1
Centris 610 - os8
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NeXT Cube (got more in common with OS X than any of the earlier listed!) 68030, mono monitor
NeXT Slab - 68040, color openstep 4.2
A Rosetta VM running in parallels - does that count?
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G4 Graphite AGP (tiger)
G4 Cube (1.2 G4, 1.5gb Ram, 120mb disk and a wicked ATI 9800) - Tiger
Quicksilver 2002 , dual G4 1ghz 1.5gb ram - Tiger

//R

Macs
Mac SE/30
Mac LC475
Power Computing Power Tower Pro
Powerbook 180
Powerbook 5300c
iMac G3 333
Powerbook G4 550

Non-Macs
Nextstation Turbo Color
Sun Ultra 64
Sun Ultra 2 Enterprise
Sun Sparc 5
Sun Sparc 20
HP C3000
HP 715 x2
Commodore Amiga 3000 (Sold Yesterday sniff sniff)
Commodore Amiga 2000
Commodore 128D
Commodore 64
Atari 1040STF
TI99/4A with PEB
HP-87XM
Kaypro 4 84
Apple IIe Platinum
Apple IIgs
Laser 128
Tandy TRS80 PC-1

Wanted
Commodore SX-64
Tandy Model IV


My wife says I have a "problem". What do you guys think?

Bart86-

I say listen to the woman.

i currently only have a Macintosh IIse or IIsc i can never remember. dosent run anything right now. stripped it of everthing its got. gonna be making it a matx hackintosh. (who said a Mac II couldnt run tiger?) altho with a super drive so i can make use of the floppy drive hole up front. its gonna be a cramped fit but hey i got alot of time on my hands.

Before my macbook, my only Mac (in the whole family) is a original Clamshell 300mhz iBook from 2000 with 5 gigs of hard disk, airport card and 300ish megs of ram. Recently my dad (who bought it, hated OS9 and has felt like a sucker since) asked me to put OSX on there for him to use. It now run Panther well...honestly its only problem is the 800x600 screen. Hope it gets him to get a newer Mac.

Anybody wanna send a mac to me for free. PM Me. Ill accept any that run OSX. Pls.

I have two Apple //e's (one Enhanced), a Color Classic, a Power Mac 7300/180, a Power Mac 8500/120, a rev D. iMac (that I overclocked to 400MHz) and a PPC mini.

First Mac was a Mac Plus with 4MB of RAM and a floppy drive that did not like to work

My next working mac was a PowerMac 8500 -- that computer was great up until the processor died on it
----My neighbors also gave me an Apple ][GS which refused to run


Also had a Performa (was either a 630 or 640) which ran pretty well

Got a PowerMac G4 a few years after they came out

Also bought a G3 Blue and White tower to toy around with

Got a Performa 5200CD lying around; I'd mess around with it, but I don't have a keyboard that I can use to turn it on...

I have a black and white Mac Classic in my basement. I had a Starmax 603e clone, but I tossed it. I think there's an Apple IIe down there somewhere. I have the receipt for it ($3000).

I have an iBook Clamshell of 1999 with 6GB hard drive and 320 MB of main memory. I want to sell it to my sister and buy a new macbook in about 3 weeks.
Oh, I've also an old Macintosh Quadra 840AV, but I haven't a video adaptor.
Sherry Haibara

I really like the look of the clamshell ibook. If your sister doesn't want it, I might be interested

I have a (working!) (Mac Classic, I believe? I can't remember, it's currently in safe keeping.)

if only the clamshell ibook had more than 800x600 resolution

The only Mac that I have. Its an iBook G3 500MHZ, 256MB, 10GB, Combo Drive. Its my second Apple computer, but the first Apple computer ive had that runs OSX. It currently has OSX 10.3.9. Before it, I had an iBook G4, 933MHZ, 640MB, 40GB, Combo Drive. I traded some PC for it, the iBook had a bad hard drive. So took it home, took a 40gig I had laying around, and put it in there. Solved, it worked, but no OSX, and no money. So I put Linux on it. Then the combo drive ate a CD, reset the PRAM to get it out, and messed up the operating system. Then realized the combo drived was done. Since I really got it for free, I traded it for the iBook G3. The guy says the G4 has more issues than the combo drive, but he is looking foward to fixing it, and I am happy I now have a Mac to play with.

A couple years ago, I got rid of my IBM XT that my uncle gave to me.

Now i'm deciding... I can save up money and buy a used Powerbook G4, at least 1GHZ. Or I can save up money and buy a cheaper widescreen laptop and throw OSX86 on it. It would just have to be something thats fully compatable and would do everything that OSX on the Powerbook can do(photoshop, garageband, that kind of shiz).

Hey de-rail, do you still have the Mac Plus? Id like a nice Micro ITX project for OSX86.

oh geez, i used to have an old Performa 6200CD running a PowerPC 603e@75 Mhz, 8 MB of RAM, 1 MB of VRAM, 1GB HD, 8X CD-ROM, 15in CRT. All I got running on was System 7.5.5. on its final days after it kept giving me that stupid Logic Board crash and the Bomb. (does anybody remember the bomb). I should have grabbed one of those processor upgrade boards (if i could find one), maxed out the ram and made it a server but its probably being used for scraped parts now. Should have saved the cds though. Now where is that old copy of system 7.5.3....

I have a Color Classic and a G3 333 iMac running OS X 10.2.8 and OS 9.2.2.

I'm frustrated right now though - the mac won't boot from CD-Rs (no problem reading them in OS X) so I can't install Panther. I need to find some original Panther CDs.

i have a (completely) working mac classic with os 7. and a powermac 6500 completely working with os9

I had a Macintosh IIsi but my parents sold it at a garage sale many years ago.

Hee hee. I had a Macintosh SE/30 for two weeks. The motherboard on it failed and I had to send it to the dumpster. I did salvage any of the guts of the computer such as the puny 40 MB harddisk.


Guru

I have a Powerbook 180c, a PowerBook Duo 280c, a PowerBook 540c, PowerBook 5300c, and a iBook Clamshell Special edition Graphite.

I also have a 333 MHz iMac G3, and a B&W G3 Special Edition.

I used to have about 7 or 8 Classic macs.

Now im using a iBook G4 14 in

Macs

which are still stored all over my home and in order of purchase...

-a Clone: Gravision 200MT with 144MB of RAM, running 9.2.2
-PowerBook 5300cs with 9.2.1 (still working with it if i'm on a journey throughout Senegal)
-beige G3 266MT@300, 348MB of RAM, 10.4.5 via XPostFacto, naturally running 9.0.4

Non-Macs
-P4 1,8, 768 Ram, running XP SP2 (running sometimes for gaming)
-Hackint0sh: P4 3,0GHz, 512 RAM, JaS 10.4.7, GeForce 2 MX 4000 PCI passive....etc.pp.

My next purchase will be the standard-MacBook

Macs, in order of age:

• MacBook Pro 17" (2.16GHz)
• iMac Core Duo 17" (1.83GHz)
• PowerBook G4 17" (1.5GHz)
• PowerBook G4 15" (800MHz)
• PowerMac G4 Digital Audio (533MHz)
• PowerMac G4 AGP (400MHz)
• iMac Indigo (350MHz)
• PowerMac G3 (400MHz)
• iMac Bondi Blue (333MHz)
• PowerMac G3 Tower (300MHz)
• PowerBook 1400cs (133Mhz)
• PowerMac 8200/100 (100MHz)
• Mac IIsi (20Mhz)
• Mac Classic (8MHz)
• Apple IIe (1MHz)

I used have some others, but not anymore

(PowerMac 9500, two PowerMac 7200s, one PowerMac 4400, Mac IIcx, Mac II ci... think that's it)

Sounds like an Apple Museum...what is the price for a one-day ticket?

Hehe. I don't like to throw stuff out. I don't have any G5 machines though. Anyone care to donate one?

I grew up using an Apple IIe. Good memories.

In the early 90's I bought an LC secondhand... not the best introduction to the Macintosh, but at least I learned a lot. The day I upgraded from 2 mb to 4 mb of ram..... oh man that was the day. I was finally able to play Civilization on the whole screen!!

Ive got quite a few,
2 Powerbook 1400's, one a 133 doesnt boot, the other a 166 does boot
A Lombard G3 Powerbook - needs a new battery, but otherwise ok
A Beige G3 - works, but sitting in a box not being used
A Blue and White G3 overclocked to 400mhz.
A Graphite Sawtooth G4 - Flashed nvidia card for QE/CI and a quicksilver 933mhz Cpu, running at 700mhz. Had to break off an ide chain for that. but totally worth it!
And my hackintosh..

I used to have an LC3 and a all in one of some sort i think it was an lc575 but i cant recall, i was only young!

Lying around... Not much. In the past I have owned:

apple IIe,
Mac plus 1 mb,
mac II ci,
mac lc II,

The only mac that I currently own is a iBook G3 800.

Oh jesus, I had to come across this thread...

Performa 637
PowerBook 3400
PowerMac 7600
PowerMac 9100
PowerMac G4

Not really a Mac-persay...

Apple eMate 300
Newton MessagePad 130
Newton MessagePad 2100

I still have my old Powerbook 3400c 180MHz (upgraded to 48MB of ram, and 4GB hard drive) in perfect working order! Unbelievable how long these machines last...

Currently I have my 2nd Mac computer I ever owned, a Macbook 2GHz

If I where you I'd get one asap as they'll soon be collectors items. Then your collection is complete :-)


I used to have these apple systems:

Mac 9600 (Mach5)
Beige G3

Non-apple systems nowadays (still) in my possesion

Sinclair ZX spectrum 48K (Z80)
Oric Atmos 48K (6502)
Tanburry Newbrain (Z80)
Sinclair QL (with various extra bits like diskinterface etc...) (68008)
Acorn Archimedes 410 (upgraded with ARM3, VIDC enhancer etc...)(ARM3 now)
Acorn Risc PC 700 (upgraded to StrongARM Risc PC; still in use) (Twin CPU system very advanced at its release in 1994. StrongARM 110 + IBM/Cyrix 5x86 PC cpu, I sold the 5x86-2nd processor later because I'd gotten that Duron PC)
Compaq Deskpro2000 (I think it has AMDK6)
Psion Series 5 8MB (ARM7100)
ECS I-buddy 901, notebook-like desktop PC (the one with Celeron 1GHz; my mom uses this ATM)
Homebuild PC P4 3GHz s478 (win xp machine)
Homebuild PC P4 3GHz s775 (OSX86 machine)

I occasionally collect 80's systems when I have some cash to spare.

I used to have these systems as well

Homebuild PC PII 400MHz (used to be my Linux Suse 6-server, router) replaced with small ADSL-router.
Homebuild AMD XP2400 system s-A
Homebuild AMD Duron system (cpu got replaced with Thunderbird 1200)
several homebuild 386SX, 486SX, 486DX-33 systems (I avoided PC's throughout the 90's until I got that AMD duron system)

Acorn Archimedes A305 (the original Arthur machine, I later replaced the Arthur ROMS with RISC OS 2, ARM2 12MHz)
Acorn A3010 (Amiga 500 look-a-like Acorn system, ARM250)
Acorn A4000 (A3010/3020 in desktop case, ARM250 cpu)
Acorn A5000 (Acorn's topmodel before Risc PC release, ARM3 25MHz Later models contained ARM3 33MHz)
Acorn Risc PC 600 MK1 (ARM610) (Early models had RISC OS on disk instead of in ROM; 8-bit audio user upgradable to 16-bit, MK2 models had OS in ROMs and 16-bit audio standard)

Commodore 64 (6510)
Amiga 500 (68000, replaced with 68010)
Amiga 2000 (upgraded to Amiga 2500 model with 68030 cpu, twin SCSI HDD etc...)
Amiga 600 (68000)

Atari 130XE (6502)
Atari PC4 (80286 AT clone from Atari, it was one o/t fastest 286 at 16MHz while most where 12MHz)

Sinclair ZX81 (Z80)

Psion II LZ (Hitachi HD6303X)
Psion Series 5MX (ARM7100 33MHz, my dad got this for his birthday from me)

Oric 1 16K (6502)

HP Jornada 568 (StrongARM-1110 the model right before XScale got release. The last HP model safter that they took over Compaq and ditched Jornada models over Ipaq) (My stepsister uses this now with GPS-antenna)

Asus 620 BT (Xscale PXA255) Used this as my main GPS system until I threw it out the window (display was broken afterwards )


To Bart... and your wife thinks YOU have a problem? Sure.

I probably have forgotten one or two systems but this the majority of them.

Regards.

Apple:

Macintosh IIcx -storage-
Macintosh IIci -storage- (upgraded to 68040 at 25 MHz)
Macintosh IIsi, System 7.1
Macintosh IIvx -storage-
Macintosh LC II -storage-
Macintosh Quadra 700, A/UX 3.0.1
Macintosh Quadra 950, Mac OS 8.1 (upgraded to PowerPC 601 at 66 MHz)
Power Macintosh 7100AV/66 -storage- (upgraded to G3 at 266 MHz)
Power Macintosh 8100AV/80, Mac OS 8.6 (upgraded to G3 at 500 MHz)
Power Macintosh 7500/100 -storage- (upgraded to PowerPC 604e at 210 MHz)
Power Macintosh 8500/132 -storage-
Power Macintosh 8600/300, Mac OS 8.6 (upgraded to G3 at 450 MHz)
Power Macintosh 8600/300, Rhapsody 5.6
Power Macintosh G3/233 Mini Tower -storage-
Power Macintosh G3/266 Mini Tower, Mac OS X v10.3.9 (upgraded to G4 at 533 MHz)
iMac G3/350, Mac OS X v10.2.8
iMac DV G3/400 -storgae-
PowerBook Duo 280 -storgae-
PowerBook Duo 2300c/100, Mac OS 8.6
PowerBook 3400c/200, Mac OS 8.6
PowerBook G3/266 (Wallstreet), Mac OS X v10.2.8 (upgraded to G4 at 500 MHz)
PowerBook G3/400 (Lombard), Mac OS X v10.3.9
PowerBook G3/400 (Pismo), Mac OS X v10.3.9

Others:

PowerComputing PowerTower Pro 225, Rhapsody 5.5
IBM ThinkPad 760ED, Rhapsody 5.1 and OPENSTEP 4.2

non-Apple related systems:

SGI Indy Workstation, IRIX 6.2 (with Indy Video and Cosmo Compression cards)
SGI IRIS Indigo Workstation (2), IRIX 5.3 (one in storage)
Sun SPARCclassic (2), Solaris 7
DEC Celeris XL5133, -storage- (formerly running Rhapsody 5.1)

Systems in bold are still in regular use. This is what my computer area looks like currently...



And seeing as people around here are so interested in Rhapsody, here are a couple screen shots of my 8600...

WOW

That's all I can say...

A few years ago I used to have an old Quadra 605, running System 7.something, but somehow it accidentally got donated to charity when I was cleaning old stuff (Got put in the wrong box...) I wish I still had it...

Now I've got my MacBook, and my PC, and I'm very interested in Classic and A/UX emulation, so I use SheepShaver and Basilisk II and Mini vMac. I haven't had any luck with A/UX yet though... I may want to try it in SheepShaver (does it run on PPC?) I already tried the other two.

I've got an iMac 333, which is currently trashed (Bad Linux bootloader accident), which I haven't gotten to fix, my Powerbook G4 (final edition - the better screened model).

PS - This thread has officially made me go to my iMac and get to work on it xD!