I got a Mac. WTF?

[TheBoyBlunder]

I think the power button is on the keyboard but I'm not sure. Can anyone confirm this?

😀

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: Palek

My first PC was a 486 with a 540MB harddrive. Man, that thing was bitchin!

My first PC had a whopping 80 MB hard drive. I had Win95 and Red Alert installed, and I had just enough space left for 3 savegames in Red Alert. An attempt to create a 4th savegame would result in a "HDD full" error message. 🙂

540MB was more than fine for games like "Lords of the Realm II", which IMO is still one of the best games ever.

Then I discovered MP3s. 🙁

lol, i had to play my first mp3 at 1/4 quality, 11khz, mono to play without skipping🙂 that was sooo sad... 486bah.
and yea, never have enough hd space.

 

[Ketteringo]

Originally posted by: Dissipate
My first "real" computer was a Pentium 133 with a 1 GB hard drive. Which I got around the same time that Mac came out give or take a few months.

Same here 🙂 A Gateway! I think we got the 1.5GB HDD, man was I a PIMP back then 😛 Now sitting on 500+GB I still feel like I need more!

 

[thraxes]

bahhhh... kids.

First had an Apple IIc...

first real PC was:
486 sx-25 with 210 MB HDD, Sony 1x CD-Rom and SoundBlaster Pro card... that was real pimp!

To restore Mac:
Get a System CD and insert in drive. At boot hold [C] or [Apple] + [C] (not 100% sure anymore). I wouldn't really want to run anything higher than system 8.5 on that thing though. 8.x will run most newer software that was designed for the classic Mac OS, has USB support and is not such a ressource hog like 9.x

 

[ghostman]

I have a Performa 638CD ($1500 at the time) and Powermac 7100 collecting dust. The 638CD has a tv tuner (crappy tuner, but a tuner nonetheless), so I'm reluctant to throw it out. If you think of something useful to do with your old mac, share the knowledge. It has been about 10 years and it has never done anything useful.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: thraxes
To restore Mac:
Get a System CD and insert in drive. At boot hold [C] or [Apple] + [C] (not 100% sure anymore). I wouldn't really want to run anything higher than system 8.5 on that thing though. 8.x will run most newer software that was designed for the classic Mac OS, has USB support and is not such a ressource hog like 9.x

Just the C key. Once the machine boots off the CD, you can look for a folder called (if I remember correctly) Disk Tools, where you'll find a utility for formatting the drive.

 

[Tom]

is that power key a triangle or a pyramid ?

 

[MartyMcFly3]

i may be wrong, but i think the power button is on the keyboard

 

[Kipper]

I believe that computer in particular is close to ten years old. If memory serves correctly it's got a 75 MHz or 90MHz processor in it, a PowerPC 603 series processor. Probably has a 4 or 6X CD-ROM and somewhere from 800MB to 1GB hard drive.

Edit: Saw that someone posted a link above.

The 62xx/63xx are amongst the worst computers ever made by Apple. They were filled with quality control issues, including faulty logic boards, RAM, etc. They were also very unfriendly at servicing, expanding, etc. I've got a 6300CD which sits at home in the cabinet. First Mac I ever had, so it comes out every so often - rock solid, though.

The power key is at the top right hand corner of the keyboard. It looks like an equilateral triangle of some sort, tilted about 45 degrees. This is assuming you have the Apple Extended Keyboard (I or II) with the isolated power button, the delete/insert/page up/down keys, etc. If you don't, the power button should be at the top of the keyboard, an isolated rectangular button with the same triangular symbol.

The application you're looking for should be in the following directory, if memory serves correctly: CD-ROM/Utilities/Drive Setup. It will give you a listing of all of the logical drives on the computer - select the hard drive, and hit the initialize button. That should do the trick. One thing about these computers from the past is that software problems are notoriously easy to fix, something we certainly can't say about its Windows counterpart at the time...