Apple MAC's and Clones
This is my collection of Apple Computers. Mostly Apple Macintosh Computers, but also some Apple Clones.
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Compact MAC's....Gotta love em !
I have several of the compact MACs. My favorite of the old hardware I have in my collection. The compacts are a lot of fun to play with and are just damn cute.
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Apple Macintosh SE Compact
This is my first compact I bought. It has a whopping 2MB of RAM and a 20MB Hard Drive. This little baby is incredibly slow by todays standards but still fires up.
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Apple Macintosh SE/30 Compact
The SE/30's are alot faster than the SE, or any of the compact MACs. In fact it is snappier than my G3 ! It runs Photoshop 1.0, Mac Draw, Mac Write, and many other programs very well. |
Coveted Color Classic Compact
This is the coolest of all the compacts featuring a color trinitron screen. The power is somewhat lacking, as is the screen resolution. Great for some tasks but without the 480x640 screen resolution it is limited. But I have seen boards up to a G4 crammed into the Color Classic along with LCD screens to make this little Mac a screaming G4. Do a google search for Mystic Color Classic and you will find many Color Classic Hacks.
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Apple Macintosh IIcx
I got this speed demon from a neighbor and have not been able to get it working so far. It has pretty limited uses so I probably won't spend much time or $ on it. Currently resides on my desk as a monitor riser. |
Apple Macintosh IIsi
Another Macintosh II computer I have that is not working yet. It is in great shape and i will continue to play with it until I can get it working. |
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Apple Macintosh LC
Pizza, Pizza, Pizza.........
The Apple Macintosh LC features a 16 MHz 68020 processor, 2 MB of RAM, and either a 40 MB or an 80 MB hard drive in a compact "pizza box" case. The Macintosh LC is a distant cousin of the Macintosh II in a smaller case, and thus, lacking many of the expansion options. |
Apple Macintosh LC II
The Apple Macintosh LC II features a 16 MHz 68030 processor, 4 MB of RAM, and either a 40 MB or an 80 MB hard drive in a compact "pizza box" case. The Macintosh LC II is very similar to the Macintosh LC, but uses the 68030 processor and includes a PMMU chip for virtual memory, but lacks dual disk drive capability. The consumer version of this model is the Performa 400 series. |
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Apple Macintosh LC III
The Apple Macintosh LC III features a 25 MHz 68030 processor, 4 MB of RAM, and either a 40 MB, an 80 MB, or a 160 MB hard drive in a compact "pizza box" case. The consumer version of the LC III is the Performa 450. |
Apple Mac Performa 6400
The Apple Macintosh Performa 6410/180 features a 180 MHz PowerPC 603e processor, 16 MB of RAM, a 1.6 GB hard drive, and an SRS 3D surround sound system with subwoofer in a sleek tower case. This model is identical to the Performa 6400/180, but was sold in Europe and Asia. |
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Apple Macintosh Performa LC580
The Apple Macintosh LC 580 features a 33 MHz 68LC040 processor, 8 MB of RAM, and a 500 MB hard drive in a relatively-compact all-in-one case with a 14" color display. The consumer version of the Macintosh LC 580 is the Performa 580 series, which was sold only in Asia
This LC580 was converted to a PowerPC 225MHz Black Mac. See pics..... |
The All new Black Mac LC5500/225
See my project Black Mac pages for more info. |
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G3 iBook and G4 PowerBook
The Clamshell iBook is my favorite new toy. It is a 466MHz G3 with OS 10.3.9 running.
Next to the iBook, under the monitor inside an old keyboard pull-out drawer is my 15 inch 1.5GHz G4 Aluminum PowerBook running Tiger. The PB is attached to an Apple 20 inch ColorSync CRT I found at the Goodwill store for 15 bucks. The Aluminum G4 is an impressive Powerbook with a really nice 15 inch screen. I needed more workspace so I attached the Apple Colorsync monitor. The Aluminum Powerbook has the nice feature of running an external monitor while the book is closed. I can boot and run the Powerbook without ever opening it using the Apple keyboard power button. It's just a kick-ass Mac !
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My Main WorkStation
Along with my favorite couchMac...... Here's my newest favorite toy.
A Quicksilver 2002 867MHz G4 with 1.25GB of RAM, a GeForce 64MB AGP main video card, a ATI Radeon 9200 PCI video card, one 320GB Seagate drive and a 120GB Seagate drive running OS 10.4 until just recently. My G4 was originally an 800MHz model but I overclocked the CPU to 867MHz to install Leopard OS 10.5 and it's running well on Leopard for a while. The G4 also has a Sweet Multi-Port in the Zip drive bay with a USB, 2 Firewire and a CompactFlash card reader. It's a nice little addidion you can still find for your G4. You'll also notice the MacSkinz flamed side panel cover I think is pretty cool. The G4 is running on two Graphite Apple 17" CRT Studio Displays and makes a pretty nice budget set-up. I probably only have about $300.00 (late 2007 $$) in the whole set-up plus another $100 in the Harmon Kardon SoundSticks and iSub.And for a bunch of plastic the sound is pretty decent. I have a new super cool dual motherboard computer project in the works and will be posting pics and info on it soon.
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