Previous Macs
On February 1, 2003, Dell from church gave me her Power Mac 6100/66.
It was a 66 MHz 601, with 72 MB RAM and a 500 MB Hard Drive.
Some peripherals were an internal floppy drive, an external 4x CD-ROM, & an Apple Color Plus 14" Display.
Its OS was Mac OS 8.1, Mac OS 8.5 & Mac OS 9.1.
Its hard drive died so I donated it to the Washington Apple Pi user group on April 29, 2003.
My Previous desktop Mac was a Power Macintosh 5400/180.
It was my main Mac from May 1997 until April 2001.
After April 2001 it served as a backup machine in case my production machine (a Power Mac G4 Cube) decided to go south.
I never had to use it in that manner.
I installed Linux on it to use as a backup web server.
Wow, It worked great as a Linux Server!
It originally had 16 MB RAM, then 48 MB RAM, and a 1.2 GB HD.
Some peripherals were an internal 8X CD-ROM, an external SCSI Zip 100 Drive,
a 10/100 Base-Tx PCI Ethernet card,
and an Apple Color StyleWriter 2500.
Its OS was Mac OS 8.1.
See my System Software History for updates to its Mac OS.
I sold it on eBay on April 21, 2002.
Dad gave me a Powerbook Duo 230.
It had a 33 MHz 68030.
It had 12 MB RAM, and a 120 MB HD.
It had a 9" 640X400 passive-matrix gray scale screen.
The internal keyboard was broken and the battery no longer held a charge.
These 2 problems effectively made it a desk-bound computer.
It had a floppy adapter and an external 1.4 MB Floppy Drive.
I had an Apple Keyboard II and an Apple ADB Mouse II attached to the floppy adapter.
It also had an internal Apple 14.4 modem!
Its OS was Mac OS 7.6.
I sold it on eBay on April 10, 2002.
I had a Power Macintosh G4 350 (Yikes!) at Mary Baldwin College.
It had 128 MB RAM, and a 10 GB HD.
Some peripherals were an internal CD-ROM, and an internal IDE Zip 100 Drive.
The CD-R drive and the Viewsonic 17" monitor were moved from the Beige G3 to the G4.
I had an Adaptec SCSI 1 card in the G4 to interface with the CD-R.
See my System Software History for updates to its Mac OS.
(OS 8.6 SE, OS 9.0, and OS 9.0.4)
Sorry, I never took a picture of it. :-(
I had a Power Macintosh G3 233 Mini-Tower (Beige) at Mary Baldwin College.
It had 64 MB RAM originally and then had 128 MB RAM. It had a 6 GB HD.
Some peripherals were an internal CD-ROM, and an internal IDE Zip 100 Drive.
The only OS I ran on it was the wonderful Mac OS 8.6.
In this picture it is connected to an Apple Multi-Scan 15", the original model HP Deskwriter (no color!), and a Panasonic 4X CD-R.
I later gained access to the network laser printer when a Postscript SIMM was installed.
I also got a dreadful Viewsonic 17" monitor. Don't ever purchase a Viewsonic monitor!
Also, just out of the bottom of this picture are two Motorola StarMax 4000/160 Mini-Tower clones.
Here is a Mac SE (Superdrive) that I bought from MBC to sell.
I sold it in September 1998 to a woman I used to work with.
Here's a rare moment when both of my SE and 5400 were off.
(It was during a thunderstorm.)
I have added a TV tuner to the Power Mac 5400 on the right, and also a Sony VHS VCR.
