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I am in the possession of a 1994 Power Macintosh. How do I get this thing running?
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<blockquote data-quote="Koitous" data-source="post: 1413223" data-attributes="member: 256509"><p>As I said, my friend dropped by my house today and dropped off this 18-year-old behemoth. It's a 6100 (stated on the motherboard), and according to various websites, the first Mac to use the PowerPC RISC chip. It's also the DOS/Windows 3.1 compatible version if that helps. Now as with any free PC (or Mac in this case) there are some "flaws". It didn't come with an HDD, nor is it fully assembled. I think I can cover the assembly (just what seems to be the video card/processor and some plastic), but the HDD thing is confusing me. I'm a PC user normally, so I've got quite a few HDDs sitting around. They are all IDE and circa 2000-2004. Will those work? </p><p></p><p>Also, he may or may not have included the boot floppies. Any work-around for those? Preferably a boot disk? All my machines are newer and don't have floppy ports. The 6100 has a CD drive by the way.</p><p></p><p>One last thing: How am I going to connect this to the internet? It doesn't seem to have an Ethernet port, but maybe I'm just too young to recognize one of the many ports for what they are. No modem either from what I see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Koitous, post: 1413223, member: 256509"] As I said, my friend dropped by my house today and dropped off this 18-year-old behemoth. It's a 6100 (stated on the motherboard), and according to various websites, the first Mac to use the PowerPC RISC chip. It's also the DOS/Windows 3.1 compatible version if that helps. Now as with any free PC (or Mac in this case) there are some "flaws". It didn't come with an HDD, nor is it fully assembled. I think I can cover the assembly (just what seems to be the video card/processor and some plastic), but the HDD thing is confusing me. I'm a PC user normally, so I've got quite a few HDDs sitting around. They are all IDE and circa 2000-2004. Will those work? Also, he may or may not have included the boot floppies. Any work-around for those? Preferably a boot disk? All my machines are newer and don't have floppy ports. The 6100 has a CD drive by the way. One last thing: How am I going to connect this to the internet? It doesn't seem to have an Ethernet port, but maybe I'm just too young to recognize one of the many ports for what they are. No modem either from what I see. [/QUOTE]
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