5 Oct
2010
5 Oct
'10
11:49 a.m.
25MHz 680LC40, 36MB RAM, MacOS 8.1. TV and Ethernet cards.
Because to my astounded delight, I just got ?50 for mine, from a chap
who found me via eBay.
The auction he was originally interested in, for an LC475, ended for
just ?8. But then, that chap only wants the hard disk drive...
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5 Oct
5 Oct
12:05 p.m.
Not too much here in the US (040 with no FPU, bad form factor, crappy IDE
for the HD, not much room for expansion, limited RAM). TV option is pretty
useless these days with HDTV killing off analog. Maybe 68K Mac pickings are
few in the UK? Some 68K models are going up in value since they are getting
uncommon thanks to recycling and age.
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From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:49 PM
Subject: How much would you reckon a Mac Performa 630 is worth?
25MHz 680LC40, 36MB RAM, MacOS 8.1. TV and Ethernet cards.
Because to my astounded delight, I just got ?50 for mine, from a chap
who found me via eBay.
The auction he was originally interested in, for an LC475, ended for
just ?8. But then, that chap only wants the hard disk drive...
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12:08 p.m.
On 5 October 2010 20:05, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
Not too much here in the US (040 with no FPU, bad form
factor, crappy IDE
for the HD, not much room for expansion, limited RAM). TV option is pretty
useless these days with HDTV killing off analog. Maybe 68K Mac pickings are
few in the UK? ?Some 68K models are going up in value since they are getting
uncommon thanks to recycling and age.
I was amazed myself.
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12:19 p.m.
j Not too much here in the US (040 with no FPU, bad form factor, crappy IDE
for the HD, not much room for expansion, limited RAM).
TV option is pretty
useless these days with HDTV killing off analog. Maybe 68K Mac pickings are
few in the UK? Some 68K models are going up in value since they are getting
uncommon thanks to recycling and age.
I keep getting offered P630s for the cost of "get it out of my attic" and I
keep saying no. So if I can get that kind of money ...
I really don't care for the P/Q630, which is right up there with the Power
Mac x2x0 series for Macs I hate. In my case, I despise them largely for
my long-familiarity-bred contempt and its dire IDE, though Remy Davidson
describes them rather more floridly (my mirrored copy since the original
has gone to the Wayback Machine in the sky):
http://www.floodgap.com/mirrors/worstmacs.html
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12:24 p.m.
On 10/5/10 2:19 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
j Not too much here in the US (040 with no FPU, bad
form factor, crappy IDE
I parsed that as p630 - as in POWER4 - and was about to offer a LOT
of help. :)
Doc
for the HD, not much room for expansion, limited
RAM). TV option is pretty
useless these days with HDTV killing off analog. Maybe 68K Mac pickings are
few in the UK? Some 68K models are going up in value since they are getting
uncommon thanks to recycling and age.
I keep getting offered P630s for the cost of "get it out of my attic" and I
keep saying no. So if I can get that kind of money ...
12:26 p.m.
I keep getting
offered P630s for the cost of "get it out of my attic" and I
keep saying no. So if I can get that kind of money ...
I parsed that as p630 - as in POWER4 - and was about to offer a LOT
of help. :)
12:26 p.m.
On 5 October 2010 20:19, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
j Not too much here in the US (040 with no FPU, bad
form factor, crappy IDE
Wow. I wouldn't have called it a Road Apple, myself...
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for the HD, not much room for expansion, limited
RAM). TV option is pretty
useless these days with HDTV killing off analog. Maybe 68K Mac pickings are
few in the UK? ?Some 68K models are going up in value since they are getting
uncommon thanks to recycling and age.
I keep getting offered P630s for the cost of "get it out of my attic" and I
keep saying no. So if I can get that kind of money ...
I really don't care for the P/Q630, which is right up there with the Power
Mac x2x0 series for Macs I hate. In my case, I despise them largely for
my long-familiarity-bred contempt and its dire IDE, though Remy Davidson
describes them rather more floridly (my mirrored copy since the original
has gone to the Wayback Machine in the sky):
? ? ? ?http://www.floodgap.com/mirrors/worstmacs.html 
12:50 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Liam Proven wrote:
25MHz 680LC40, 36MB RAM, MacOS 8.1. TV and Ethernet
cards.
Because to my astounded delight, I just got ?50 for mine, from a chap
who found me via eBay.
The auction he was originally interested in, for an LC475, ended for
just ?8. But then, that chap only wants the hard disk drive...
I would say it depends on if you have software that will only run on such a
system. In fact I would consider Mac OS 8.1 to be a drawback for this
system. I have software that will only run on System 7.6 or earlier, as
System 8 broke it.
Zane
1:22 p.m.
On 5 October 2010 20:50, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Liam Proven wrote:
Hmmm. Interesting.
I really liked MacOS 8 myself. Things like the multithreaded Finder
and pop-up folders were invaluable, especially for smaller screens; I
used them all the time. Things like Internet configuration and setup
were much easier, too. And I always found the performance of 8.1 to be
pretty good and it was fairly snappy on this machine.
I set up my Classic II a few years back with both 7.6.1 (as that was
the latest it would run) and 6.0.8, as an exercise, after reading
various websites extolling System 6 as being leaner, meaner and
faster.
Well, it was an epic job to find all the niceties to make System 6
feel like an even slightly grown-up OS: a menubar clock, a
hierarchical Apple menu, a network client, TCP/IP stack, screensaver,
Windowshade (essential on a 9" screen) and so on.
By the time I had it all installed, it was just as slow as 7.6.1 and
took about the same amount of RAM - which is significant on a machine
with a max memory ceiling of 10MB. In the end I used System 7 almost
all the time; if nothing else, when so short of RAM, reasonable
working VM helped. Also, I'd got very used to aliases and use them a
lot.
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25MHz 680LC40, 36MB RAM, MacOS 8.1. TV and
Ethernet cards.
Because to my astounded delight, I just got ?50 for mine, from a chap
who found me via eBay.
The auction he was originally interested in, for an LC475, ended for
just ?8. But then, that chap only wants the hard disk drive...
I would say it depends on if you have software that will only run on such a
system. ?In fact I would consider Mac OS 8.1 to be a drawback for this
system. ?I have software that will only run on System 7.6 or earlier, as
System 8 broke it.
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