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| PPC 6500, no mouse or keyboard |
Posted by: woopud on 2007-11-23 14:40:04
Just got this PPC 6500 which I hooked up to a monitor I had to see if it works and it did! I have no ADB mouse or keyboard to use with it, is there a way to re-wire a ps2 mouse to use it on a mac ?
Bert
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Posted by: MultiFinder on 2007-11-24 13:21:14
Not easily, but you can find ADB keyboards and mice either here (ask in the Trading Post, people have oodles of them), or really cheaply on eBay.
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Posted by: woopud on 2007-11-30 06:47:24
Okay, got the mouse and keyboard. Another question, how do I open the case ? I'dd like to add another hard drive but can't figure out how to open it up.
Bert
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2007-11-30 07:28:39
http://homepage.mac.com/norodom/6400open/takeapart.html
There is only 1 IDE HD bay, there is also a bay for a SCSI device in the top but the bus is only 5MB/sec.
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Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2007-11-30 08:03:28
The stock IDE hard drive is very slow. Even many old SCSI drives beat it. Any other IDE drive will probably beat it.
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Posted by: gobabushka on 2007-11-30 10:53:36
tht computer only supports one drive per ide chain 🙁
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2007-11-30 23:40:17
Okay, got the mouse and keyboard. Another question, how do I open the case ? I'dd like to add another hard drive but can't figure out how to open it up.
Bert Hee Hee. You are about to enter... the Twilight Zone. The 6500 is the worst case Apple ever made. Most people can't get them open without destroying the plastic tabs that hold it together.
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Posted by: MacJunky on 2007-12-01 01:09:50
Once I carefully got mine open I did some trimming to the lumps on the front bits to facilitate easier opening in the future.
I left the side panels and top though, they come off ok with the right amount of pressure at the right locations.
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Posted by: skeletor on 2008-03-11 16:39:14
Okay, got the mouse and keyboard. Another question, how do I open the case ? I'dd like to add another hard drive but can't figure out how to open it up.
Bert Hee Hee. You are about to enter... the Twilight Zone. The 6500 is the worst case Apple ever made. Most people can't get them open without destroying the plastic tabs that hold it together.
amen to that..beats the olde quadra 800/840/power mac 8100/8500
case hands down....and that was a bear, as well..
be careful...with the tabs...with age, the plastic gets brittle, and can
snap...and then you'll be going...@#$%!!!!!!
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