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Offline Floid

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Re: Possible uses of an old Powermac
« Reply #14 from previous page: August 11, 2004, 05:00:20 PM »
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nagaflas wrote:
This might be a dumb question, but here goes...

Is there any way I can install some sort of native Amiga compatible OS on my old Umax C600 SuperMac? Can MorphOS or something be installed on this machine? If so, it would be a good investment, eventhough the thing has a 603e running at 166mhz.

 :-D Leshaun Fossett
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You could run NetBSD, though it will take a bit of hackistry to install, and a PCI video card and further fiddling to enable video.  That's more than enough horsepower for a home router or simple webserver to fiddle on, though, whether or not you can get graphics up.

The 7200 is more screwed - per that site, the 601 is soldered with no opportunity for expansion.  Rather than pitch it in the dumpster, pair it up with OS9 and the next Imagewriter you find in the trash, and donate it to anyone who could make use of a basic word processing box (Boys' and Girls' Club, local school, homeless shelter for typing resumes)...
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Re: Possible uses of an old Powermac
« Reply #15 on: August 11, 2004, 05:57:23 PM »
I saw a 9600-300mhz 604e Powermac with 64mb ram and 4bg hard drive go for £22 on ebay this morning, I wish I had have bid on it :-(

Only problem is it has OS8 and by the looks of it I need OS 9.1 at least to do what I want (Msn messenger and MP3)

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Re: Possible uses of an old Powermac
« Reply #16 on: August 13, 2004, 02:26:21 AM »
I got a Powerwave last year for not much more. Still haven't put it to much use yet...its going to a friend on long term loan, along with my 21" SGI monitor. I just don't have the space! And I don't have time to wrestle with MacOS, as I'm still trying to get all these Amigas up and running as I'd like.



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Re: Possible uses of an old Powermac
« Reply #17 on: August 13, 2004, 02:46:41 AM »
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Old Macs are crap...



Agreed actually, shock horror! Mac zealot agrees!!
In fact, anything earlier than 10.2 Jaguar is bad IMO.

Thats why Amigas were my main choice until around 2 years ago.  :-)
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Re: Possible uses of an old Powermac
« Reply #18 on: August 13, 2004, 04:55:51 AM »
I picked up a PowerMac 7200/200 a year or so ago, and I still can't figure out exactly what I can do with it, might make a handy door stop one day, lucky I didn't pay anything for it...hehe
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