Found a 6500/250 the other day at the local Salvation Army store for $35. ($35 seems to be their price for any PC or Mac tower, regardless of age or condition.) Figured this would make a good backup machine, in case I had to move my IDE drive out of my G3 DT, or vice versa.
All in all looks like a pretty decent buy: 64 MB RAM/3.7 hd, Zip, ethernet card. Down side: Geopoot "modem" in Comm II slot, no TV card, marginal PRAM. Also, the subwoofer control button in back is missing. (Only means something if you have ext. speakers, I understand.) Broken plastic in back & minor gouges in various places. (Attempts to get in, I'll bet. I haven't tried to yet, & won't until I've studied the service manual better. It looks complicated.) The software on the drive was MS Office 98 -- which I trashed, not having a license. 8^) Musta been the "Small Business" config...the donor left extensive business records on the drive, which, of course, I also trashed, sight unseen. (Why do people leave that stuff on? Do they think it all goes into the magic bit bin when it leaves their hands?) 8-D But anyway, the reason for my post -- I hit Google this morning to check out all the approprite information sites, as I always do with new stuff. I was wondering if anybody had anything to comment about this paragraph from MacAddict's 1997 review of the machine, at <http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0697/rev.powermac6500.html>: << The 6500 line is intended for home and education markets, but a graphics professional could get very good use out of the Creative Studio configuration. The biggest problem with this configuration is that you can't expand the VRAM past the included 2MB, which gives you millions of colors at a maximum of 800-x-600-pixel resolution. Apple has said that adding another graphics card to the PCI bus will not be compatible with the built-in ATI Technologies chipset, so the only option is to buy a PCI card from ATI to get more VRAM and/or an extra monitor. This seems a bit silly to have to purchase what is essentially the same chipset that's already on the motherboard just to get extra VRAM. >> Anybody running a non-ATI card in their 6500? (I'll bet there are!)... I don't see anything else about this supposed limitation on any of the other sites, including Apple's. Wonder why they said it? They're also wrong about the 24-bit resolution (the highest is 832 x 634!) -- Over, Jutso http://pages.ripco.net/~jutso/ -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
