by "Nibby" (nibby68)
Published 12/08/2017 at 11:29
by "Nibby" (nibby68)
Published 12/08/2017 at 11:29
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Came with monitor, 2 mice, 2 keyboards, complete system, and a bunch of software in boxes. Mostly old games and some autocad program. Actually, this is the first retro mac I’ve owned
Macintosh Performa 630CD. Broke the top cover while cleaning; brittle plastic shattered into many pieces.
The front without the faceplate
The rear. Note some broken plastic that has been pieced back via super glue
The guts, all cleaned up!
Logic board
250MB IDE hard drive
Came with 2 keyboards, an Apple Design keyboard and (pictured of the shell) Apple Extended Keyboard II that I am retrobrighting
Apple Design keyboard. Nothing fancy here but it cleaned up well. Had all sorts of brown gunk on it.
One of the 2 mice
The clean one next to the dirty one. Actually the clean one was dirtier but they both came out looking like the left.
Came with a LaCie 540MB external SCSI drive! Works fine
Rear of the SCSI drive... with a terminator I believe and power pass through
Apple Performa Plus display in good shape
Everything together! The faceplate isn’t properly installed yet... waiting until I’m done cleaning and installing stuff on the machine.
Installing Mac OS 7.6.1 via CD
Preparing to install
Boot screen
Starting up...
Loading extensions
Desktop!
Classic TTS voices.
System 7.6.1
Some Hello Kitty piano game that was already on there. Also came with a bunch of boxes of software you can see behind the monitor.
Backing up the original 7.5 install it came with to the SCSI drive
Overall, pretty cool score. I want to replace the top cover, do a RAM upgrade and add networking.
"Tripper" (tripe46)
12/08/2017 at 11:31, STARS: 0
Lemme see dat shufflepuck!
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
12/08/2017 at 11:32, STARS: 0
This takes me back. Did a lot of work on these.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
12/08/2017 at 11:39, STARS: 0
And what Crack Price did you pay for these museum pieces?
"Aremmes" (aremmes)
12/08/2017 at 11:41, STARS: 0
Eeewww, an old world Mac with IDE. Junk it.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
12/08/2017 at 11:43, STARS: 0
My favorite part of tts was getting MS Sam to sound like a Power Stroke
"uofime-2" (uofime-2)
12/08/2017 at 11:46, STARS: 1
This is the computer that my dad got us as kids and we had until I was like 10 before moving to an Hp pavillion with Windows 98.
Does it have Power Pete? I always sucked at it but it was my jam
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
12/08/2017 at 11:46, STARS: 0
Oh man, spent some time with those in the 90s. What did this glorious CL find set you back?
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
12/08/2017 at 11:50, STARS: 1
Nice find. We had a 6300CD as a family computer when I was in middle school. Same case but with a 100 MHz PowerPC chip. If I’m not mistaken the 630 series used a 680LC40 chip which is a 68040 with the FPU removed so some vintage software that relied on the FPU either won’t run or will run slowly. lowendmac.com and everymac.com are your friends for vintage Mac info. If you keep messing around with vintage Apple stuff, I highly recommend grabbing a blue and white Power Mac G3. They can be overclocked using jumper switches on the motherboard and have multiple internal IDE bays for toys, support tons of RAM (in classic MacOS terms) and can be had dirt cheap.
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
12/08/2017 at 11:58, STARS: 0
Ha! A mouse with one button!
No wonder Apple is going broke.
"thejustache" (thejustache)
12/08/2017 at 12:04, STARS: 0
Cool! The first internet connected computer we had in the house growing up was a model shortly after this I believe... my dad used it to write his master’s thesis for his teaching degree and then we got a gateway of some sort running windows 98 a year or two later and I’ve been a PC guy ever since.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 12:07, STARS: 0
Thanks a lot! I’ve been using Basilisk II and my Optiplex GX1 to copy stuff via floppies back and forth. I think I’ll be good once the ethernet card I ordered comes and then I can just FTP stuff.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 12:08, STARS: 0
he wanted $100 but took my $80 offer
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
12/08/2017 at 12:08, STARS: 1
What do you use to take off that yellow? Your ability to clean these dinosaurs is what impresses me the most.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 12:08, STARS: 0
No I don’t think it has that game
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 12:09, STARS: 0
under $100 and it’s probably worth a lot more
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 12:14, STARS: 0
i didn’t retrobright anything except the keyboard (still working on that, not sunny)... everything was just wiped down with isopropyl alcohol and magic eraser (which can help de-yellow)
for retrobrighting you need this salon care 40 cream, a brush, and sunlight... cover the yellowed part with plastic wrap and let it sit in the sun all day, rotate every hour
http://www.sallybeauty.com/salonc-care-40-volume-creme-developer/SBS-760680,default,pd.html
"Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!" (theduckduck)
12/08/2017 at 12:16, STARS: 0
So I have been curious about this, do you fix old computers up and then sell them? Who is buying these and for what purpose? Genuinely curious.
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
12/08/2017 at 12:19, STARS: 0
So ... you apply hair bleach to it ... plastic wrap it ... and stick it in the sun? That’s simply amazing.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 12:20, STARS: 0
Yeah, pretty much sell them. Almost always make a profit, sometimes 3-4x
people buy them for nostalgia, playing old games, running legacy software... some industrial uses for them too, like using old expensive equipment that runs off serial ports or whatever
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 12:21, STARS: 0
yep!
"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
12/08/2017 at 12:29, STARS: 0
Ah... precursor to the garbage Power Mac 5200/5300/6200/6300.
PS: I have a ThinkPad 240Z C500, Toshiba Satellite Pro 4320 P3-600, Sharp forgot model but I think it has a Celeron 500 as well, worth anything?
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 12:51, STARS: 0
dunno about the sharp but if you clean both of those and do a fresh 98SE install + drivers, you could net $80-120 each depending on condition
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
12/08/2017 at 12:57, STARS: 1
Getting stuff onto older Macs can be a bit of a pain in the butt if you don’t have another Mac around that can read and write HFS formatted disks. IIRC, System 7.6 has built-in support for ISO 9660, so you should be able to burn CD’s on a PC and read them on the 630. As far as going from the Mac to PC it will be floppies until you get networking going. Networking should be pretty straightforward on this machine once you get the card - 7.6 had built in support for TCP/IP. Fetch was the name of the FTP file transfer software I used to use in the System 7.X days if you can find it floating around.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 13:13, STARS: 1
grabbing stuff from here
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
12/08/2017 at 13:34, STARS: 1
That’s pretty much the best source for old stuff that I know of. I had an iBook that I got for free (I pulled it out of the trash at work - it had a corrupted file system - a reformat and reinstall and eBay AC adapter and it was perfect.) that I gave to my daughter to mess around with that I loaded up with apps from there.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 13:57, STARS: 0
Sweet! Okay so I nabbed Photoshop 4.0, After Dark, a MIDI player, ClarisDraw, ClarisWorks, Disk Copy 4.2, Fetch, iCab, Mac IRC, The Talking Moose, Netscape 3.04, Oregon Trail, Stuffit Deluxe, and Transmit.
"feather-throttle-not-hair" (feather-throttle-not-hair)
12/08/2017 at 15:24, STARS: 1
We totally had a performa growing up. I thought it was so fucking rad.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 15:43, STARS: 1
your profile picture of john stamos is rad
"feather-throttle-not-hair" (feather-throttle-not-hair)
12/08/2017 at 15:51, STARS: 0
Why thank you! It’s what kept popping up when i googled “feathered hair”
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
12/08/2017 at 16:09, STARS: 1
That’s a pretty good list. I legitimately miss ClarisWorks. My brother and I used it to design and print a monthly parody community newspaper when we were teenagers that we left all over the neighborhood. It was very well integrated for the time and modern office suites still skip some of it’s features like an integrated bitmap graphics editor - think if you could add an MS Paint frame inside of a Word document or Excel spreadsheet.
One thing to keep in mind about the Classic MacOS is that even though it has cooperative multitasking, it has a pretty terrible memory manager so system crashes happen pretty frequently when you try to do multiple things at once. You can force quit apps that are acting up, but unlike today when the system is usually fine afterwards, forcing an app to quit often takes out the whole system. Open Apple - Control - Power resets the machine like ctrl-alt-del on DOS.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 17:52, STARS: 0
Oh, yeah I do recall System 7 and System 6 are akin to Windows 3.11 with multitasking
"ranwhenparked" (ranwhenparked)
12/08/2017 at 17:59, STARS: 1
A Performa 630CD “Money Magazine Edition” was the first GUI computer my family owned, replacing an IBM 5150 PC. We got about 4 years of use out of it, before it was replaced by a 1st gen iMac. I believe my parents still have it in their attic.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/08/2017 at 18:00, STARS: 0
see if that mac still works... you could say it ranwhenparked
"ranwhenparked" (ranwhenparked)
12/08/2017 at 18:05, STARS: 1
It hasn’t been turned on in almost 20 years, might be fun to see if it works.
Could also plug in the modem and see if you can still connect to eWorld.
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
12/08/2017 at 18:38, STARS: 0
Yep - so you should be used to it already!
"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
12/08/2017 at 19:12, STARS: 0
Holy shit, I had that exact model as a kid. Does it have Power Pete? If not then I strongly suggest you GET POWER PETE. I miss that game so much
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"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
12/08/2017 at 19:15, STARS: 1
I think we just became best friends
"Nibby" (nibby68)
12/09/2017 at 00:05, STARS: 1
gonna grab it!
"uofime-2" (uofime-2)
12/11/2017 at 10:12, STARS: 0
Boooooo!!!
You must find it!
"uofime-2" (uofime-2)
12/11/2017 at 10:13, STARS: 1
Not the only one with fond memories huh?
Really wish I could find a way to play it again!
"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
12/11/2017 at 18:25, STARS: 1
Me too, I put thousands of hours into that game as a kid (despite never making it past the third island), and I’d put in thousands more in a heartbeat