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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / May 2006Macintosh Proforma 6400/200
My 11 year old nephew just bought a Macintosh 6400/200 Power PC and my dear 83 year old mother asked me to take it home and make sure it works for him. It works. but apparently has all software wiped out. It has 49 meg of ram and a 6.3 gig scsi HD In its system folder almost everything says the file cannot be found. The system profiler says it must have OS version 7 in order to run, so it predates that. I'm afraid I know nothing about Macs. Can anyone tell me if this is junk that should be thrown away, if it has collector value, or if there is a repository of free software that I can downlaod for it? I mean, its a functioning antique, and I feel a little bad about advising that it be hurled into a dumpster. :x * posted via http://www.mymac.ws * please report abuse to http://xinbox.com/mymac > In its system folder almost everything says the file cannot be found. ...while doing what? Double clicking on the elemnets seen? Sure you read the error message right? A 6400 is of no historical value (my opinion), but capable running MacOS up to 9.1 theoretically (49 MB of RAM is not enough. 64MB is about the lowest line to reach if you don't want to run the system only :-)). An 11 year old boy might to be in need of more resources to play games (depending on what kind of games he likes... my sons always want more, a G3/450 with a 3D-capable graphic card is the slowest machine they accept), and is not a perfect recipient for a computer quite as old as himself. A nice and cheap start for Mac-youngster might be a well equipped iMac (3rd generation, 400MHz and at least 512MB RAM) or other Macs from the Blue and White generation, the beige types are giving quite a spartanic view of what Macs are today and are frustrating because of all the "can't do this and can't find softwares for that"s. The problem with older Macs is, you must have someone guiding you to find out what can be done with them ... and it's a lot, but most of it is in need of software hard to get nowadays. So if you don't have a tradition of Macs in your family, better start with Macs build after year 2000. Greetings Frank > The problem with older Macs is, you must have someone guiding you to > find out what can be done with them ... and it's a lot, but most of it > is in need of software hard to get nowadays. So if you don't have a > tradition of Macs in your family, better start with Macs build after > year 2000. Agreed, but there are resources online, like http://www.lowendmac.com/ and specifically for this baby, http://www.zone6400.com/  SignatureI recommend Macs to my friends, and Windows machines to those whom I don't mind billing by the hour |
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