[Coco] how you work this thing lol

[Bob Devries]

The 6400/180 is a 603e CPU, running at 180MHz.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Hazelton" <davehazelton at access-4-free.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>; <Nuxie at aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] how you work this thing lol


> Nuxie at aol.com wrote:
>
> > got any idea what model i would need for a 6400/180 tower im looking on
ebay
> > for them rightnow. what should look for?
> >
> > Mary
> >
>
> what are you looking for the MAC to do?
>
> I have a 7600 that has been upgraded to a 400mhz/G4 and is running 10.3
> I wanted something that could be running current MAC software....(slowly
> , but running)
>
> Not knowing what the 6400/180 is off the top of my head.  I would look
> for a Mac that is at least a PCI based Mac, so USB ports could be added
> and a G4 processor card.  I think those were 7300-9600 models.  OR go
> with a G3 or G4 tower.  As Mac OS X gets up there in power, the G3 will
> likely get drop from support, G5 are where they are now on desktops but
> all the laptops and Imacs and Emacs are G4 now.
>
> Unless money is tight, I would try to get the newest mac that you can
> afford.  I bought my 7300 at a junk store for $10 and he guaranteed that
> it would work, this included the monitor.  The monitor was shot after a
> month of use, a Mac to VGA adapter and a PC SVGA monitor.  I added a $20
> USB card and a G4/400mhz card of E-bay for $125.  The 7300 had 96MB
> memory and a 6GB hardrive running 9.1 and partitioned for Darwin.  I got
> lucky.  Darwin never loaded correctly. I added 128MB of memory from OWC
> for about $30.00 and I bought of E-bay Mac OS 10.3 for $65.00.  So for
> me (Money tight it still cost me over $200.00 and I thought I was doing
> good)
>
> ~David Hazelton
>
>
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