On Monday 06 May 2002 01:28 am, you wrote:
> on 5/5/02 8:26 PM, Nancy A. MacLarty at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I am on a Power Mac 6500/225, OS 8.6, 96 mb memory. I want to upgrade,
> > but don't know what I want. I would like to keep this computer...is
> > there anything I can do (besides increasing memory) to upgrade. I like
> > 8.6 too. But if I get a newer mac, will I lose all my apps like
> > MaclinkPlus Deluxe 13, IC word, Drag strip, etc? Most of which I
> > downloaded and do not have the CD's for.
> >
> > I'm not a computer whiz and don't use it for any extreme things, however,
> > I am thinking of getting a digital camera (I have an old Apple Quick
> > Take)....
> >
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Nancy Mac in Canada
>
> Hi Nancy,
>
> I'm a fellow Canuck here in Seattle. You can pop a g-3 L2 upgrade chip in
> there, about $200 +/- on EBay. Also plug in a video board as several here
> have recommended to me to speed the redraws. Also, fill in the TV Slot
> with the FM/TV card, which will save a PCI slot and enable listening to
> radio or watching/capturing TV, remove thw ZIP from the upper bay and
> replace with a scsi drive. If you choose that as the start-up disk, boot
> is slower but operation is faster. Then you can run a zip 250 on the
> outside, or cd/rw. or both with what ever else you want in the out side
> scsi chain. Fill the comm II slot with the ethernet card and you've saved
> a pci slot again and enables the modem serial port. Run a 56k modem off
> the enabled serial modem port and you've saved the comm II slot for the
> ethernet card.
>
> r
I've got one of these also. Were do I find the ethernet card for the com port?
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