--- Amber Rhea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 8/28/01 8:55 AM, (Vintage Macs) at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Sturdy too! And now, auto accessories: a gutted
> Perf 6200 case affixed to
> > the under-dash of an '84 CHevy Cavalier makes for
> a great add-on glovebox!
> > Dana
>
> Wow, that's about one of the best uses I have heard
> of for a 62xx! Last
> week, I (unfortunately) had to visit again with my
> current customer's
> Performa 6214CD. He had complained of Netscape being
> "unbearably slow" on
> it... I upgraded the RAM to 64MB and took him down
> to Netscape 3.0, but it
> didn't help *that* much... I then tried to explain
> to him, as gently and
> tactfully as I could, so as not to turn him off to
> Macs altogether, that the
> 62xx series were severely crippled in terms of,
> well, everything, and that
> he shouldn't rely on it too much for web surfing.
> (He has a beige G3 that's
> *his* computer; the Performa is his kid's; they also
> have an LCIII with
> 36MB, which actually seems faster than the
> Performa... go figure...)
>
> I know this is way off topic now! Sorry!! :O
>
> (And while we're off topic... This is from the LEM
> page about the Performa
> 6200... "32-bit memory" - what exactly does this
> refer to? Everymac.com says
> is has a 64-bit bus but I had a hunch they were
> wrong... ?)
Sure, it's 64bits, right out to the pins on the CPU.
:P
>From there it splits into two 32bit busses. Could be
that was one of the Macs I dinked with at Wal-Mart
and saw how slow it was compared to the "snazzy" and
fast Packard Bell (Packaged Hell) sitting next to
it. Earlier than that, Wal-Mart had Macs like an LC-II
next to a 486/25 running Windows 3.1 with 16bit color.
Let's see, which would a newbie buy? A Mac that can
only
do 256 colors and is slow enough that the demo can
be seen "blitting" the graphics to the screen or the
PC showing a slideshow of TIFF images in brilliant
"thousands of colors" and switching them fast enough
that you can't see the screen redraw? (And the PC has
double the RAM, standard.)
Yup. Apple hurt their percived reputation with all
those
slower and limited models that were sold in places
like Wal-Mart next to the Packaged Hells which were
the pi$$-poor end of the PCs but certainly appeared
faster. :P
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which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in
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