Upgrading to a Performa 6200

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Upgrading to a Performa 6200

Smile That's what I'd call it. Just been through Dell Hell. Let's never speak of it again. So now the Dell is up for sale on eBay, and I'm buying a nice Performa 6200 setup to fill in the few days/weeks' gap between the Dell and the G4 I replace it with. Afterwards it'll be my TV. By 'nice', I mean this: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5116741478 now THAT is a hell of a road apple! Biggrin
So anyway. Reasons for this post are; are there any MSN clients for Mac OS 8.1(and I mean ANY...not concerned about features, just need to keep in touch with friends), and what's the quickest full-featured Web browser that will run on a POS Mac like this?

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Nice RoadApple . . .

. . . the only things it doesn't have that I can think of would be the FM/TV version of the Tuner, an L2 cache card and the MPEG Media System! My kid is STILL using the 6290 I set up for him way back when it was a brand new Quadra 630. His TIBook sits right next to the 17" TrinitronTV/RoadApple when he's home from college.

jt Wink

edit: get yourself a Com Slot NIC and a 56k modem if you don't already have one, the stock modem is the only real POS in that auction. I'm getting a little tired of some of the more vicious of the RoadApple comments around here. As you've pointed out, even with a G4 around, they're still VERY useful little machines, despite their intentionally hamstrung design.

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IIRC the FM/TV tuner was for

IIRC the FM/TV tuner was for the PCI models. Of course moving this one up to PCI is a fast and cheap MLB swap (and maybe a 3.3v regulator, but that is fairly fast and cheap too)... Then USB and other more modern connections become available, of course. I'll second the changing of the modem for a CS NIC. Get a cheap external 56k modem, plug this into a router/hub and you've got a TV/internet router and if you stick a decent HDD in it you've also got a local file server. Not too bad for a Road Apple. :macos:

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6200

Well I'm thinking I"ll just leave the internal modem where it is and use that, I don't really want to spend money on an external modem which I'll never use again afterwards... I am aware that the modem in question uses CPU power...

Looks like this thing could be a good little media centre for my room(can even plug a DVD/VCR etc into it). Anyone know if you can use the remote to control MP3 player applications at all?

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Hmm... I may have a 6400/200

Hmm... I may have a 6400/200 board laying around here somewhere... can I use the 6200's TV tuner/AV stuff and internal modem with that?

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You can ose the 6200's TV tun

You can ose the 6200's TV tuner/AV stuff, The Comm slot on the 6400 has a "divider" in a different place than the Comm slot in a 6200. Some cards were made to work in both and some weren't

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anyone?

Nobody knows of any MSN Messenger programs that still work with OS 8?

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