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| Performa 6400 with goodies inside! | |
| Posted by: LimeiBook86 on 2009-08-03 10:09:24 So I visited a Salvation Army thrift store in PA that I tend to frequent. Usually in their electronics section in the basement only have monitors and printers. So this time when I saw a Mac tower I was excited! It was a Performa 6400 tower which seemed to be in good condition. I looked on the back to find a S-Video and Composite video input card installed. So I wondered what other upgrades were inside. I recognized that the back motherboard would easily slide out if a few screws were unscrewed. So with a pair of keys I got the screws loosened and pulled out the motherboard for a quick look. I was happy to find a Sonnet G3 400MHz upgrade card with L1 and L2 cache inside! I quickly put everything back and went upstairs to purchase it for all of $10! I took it home and it had a clean install of Mac OS 8.1 with a 3GB hard drive, the CD and floppy drive seemed to work fine. Very speedy machine indeed, even if it only had 32MB of RAM. 😀 -Steve | |
| Posted by: Mars478 on 2009-08-03 13:02:37 Nice! Have fun with that machine! | |
| Posted by: macgeek417 on 2009-08-03 14:28:43 No fair!!! | |
| Posted by: quinterro on 2009-08-03 18:40:30 Gotta love finding an old Mac with the purple heatsink! Great find! | |
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-08-03 18:59:35 8-o That is all | |
Posted by: Christopher on 2009-08-03 19:40:50 | |
Posted by: macgeek417 on 2009-08-03 20:31:31What is that picture even of? | |
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-08-03 22:00:34 Looks like Orson Welles in Citizen Kane to me. Do I win a prize? Say a Sonnet G3? 😛 | |
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