on 3/30/03 7:23 PM, John Van Fossen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello -- I was just given a 6500/225 as a donation to our little > startup school. I am the 3rd grade teacher and plan on using it in > my classroom. It is running OS 9.0.4 and has 64MB ram. It seems to > have been partitioned with a 3 GB drive. It has a ATY, 264GT-B > display card and a PanaMedia PM17 monitor. > > I'm starting out pretty blank but it occurs to me that it might make > sense to upgrade the machine a bit at least in terms of RAM. I > gather that it will run OS 9.1 so I may upgrade it though the donator > has insisted that I thoroughly obliterate her personal files which I > gather may take reformatting the disk. She has apparently no disks > with the OS on it. I only have a couple of upgrade disks (8.6 and > 9.2.1 -- I personally use an iMac DV running OSX). > > Sigh, I'm brand new to the list so I'm looking for direction. I've > tried searching for a 6500 page which might have suggestions on what > sorts of upgrades might make sense on such a machine but I haven't > found anything yet. Depending on the price, I imagine I'll want to > upgrade the Ram which apparently can be maxed at 128MB. Can anyone > help me get started by suggesting things for me to think about or > point me to web page which might help? > > Thank-you for any help. > > John
The Hard Drive is a good size for what you are going to be doing, You Might what to upgrade the RAM to atleast 96 MB if you are going to use OS 9.1. Anyway, the 6500 series are good computers (I personally own a Power Mac 6500/250) Anyway, you have a good computer and I hope it works well for you. -Ted P.S. All of the Power Mac 6500 series have an ATI RAGE II graphics accelerator card with 2 MB VRAM, not an ATY, 264GT-B, it just says that in the Apple System Profiler. -- 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
