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Old Mac Hardware upgrading
« on: August 18, 2003, 09:18:34 PM »
I picked up an old Mac Performa 6200 CD recently for some pocket change. Anyhow I noticed that it actually uses IDE hard drives, so I was wondering how large of a hard drive you could stick in one of these? It has a 1GB right now.
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Re: Old Mac Hardware upgrading
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2003, 05:49:10 AM »
Well I've got a 6Gb HD in now, and it is working great. I should have made a tutorial with a camera, but dint' think of it. That thing is a puzzle to open.
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Re: Old Mac Hardware upgrading
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2003, 04:31:57 AM »
Ya, I don't think Apple wanted there users updating there hard drives. :)
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Re: Old Mac Hardware upgrading
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2003, 05:30:17 AM »
On some Macs it is a breeze, but this Performa was a pain in the arse! Changing the Drive was easy, but...


...figuring out how to take the Mac apart to get to that point was tricky. On my old Mac, you simply lifted the top of the case and you were had instant acess to all the internal hardware, on this one you had to solve the mighty case puzzle without breaking any plastic prongs and what not, but once you know how to do it, it is easy to do again, but the 1st time is most certainly a dog in heat. :)
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Re: Old Mac Hardware upgrading
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2003, 07:47:27 AM »
Ok, new troubles. Ok I can dial up to the net, but Netscrape and IE refuse to open any web pages, and claim there is a lack of DNS. So I figure my Modem could be bad and would like to try the external USR modem I use on my PC, but as fate would have it, I do not have a cable to connect a 25 pin PC serial cable to that funky mac modem port.
 
 Anyone know where to find these?

 I also tried to connect the modem into the printer port as I heard the modem port on my model mac is flakey, and was advised to do this, but when I try that route, the Mac says that the printer port is already in use (sounds like winblows) even though it is not.

 Finally, where can I find internal Network cards for these old 6200 Performas?

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Re: Old Mac Hardware upgrading
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2003, 06:55:18 PM »
Just after I got done asking, I found both of what I needed on Ebay. For some reason I was not pulling up results before. Must have been a typo.

 Thankx for all the help, I'll call up my crappy ISP today and check into the DNS.

 Once again Dana I have to say you are VERY hot. :)
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Re: Old Mac Hardware upgrading
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2003, 02:47:31 AM »
Thankx again, I'll book mark them and look into them this week end.

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