I had a 5400 I think a few years back with a TV tuner .... it was pretty cool. Anybody have one of these lying around?
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Britt Dodd wrote: > > I have been a long-time mac user, getting my first taste of macs > > during 3rd grade (i'm now 23) . We had these powerbooks that would go > > to a classroom on a huge cart, B&W screens, with the round feet to > > prop the keyboard up. Couldn't have been any faster than a 68030. > > Fantastic machines, I wish I had one today. Anyway, the admin ( who, > > in 4th grade was myself -- over the whole school) put At-Ease on these > > machines. I was trying to see how many apps this little laptop could > > run at a time, so I launched a game called Crosscountry USA, and then > > swithced to At-Ease to launch Clarisworks 3. As soon as clarisworks > > loaded, At-Ease crashed and took me to the finder! I wasn't the > > hacking type (I'm still not , I prefer working on my own machines) but > > I just remembered that little story and thought i'd share it with you > > all. > > > > Now the question: How hard is it to find the nice all-in-one macs that > > had 603 processors in them? I think they were like 200Mhz or > > 250Mhz.... Also, I cannot find At Ease anywhere! Is this something > > that can still be bought? > > > > > > Sincerely, > > Britt > > There were various All-in-One PowerMacs, and a good many of them were > wretched. Pretty much the entire 5200/5300 all-in-one line was terrible > for various techy reasons that you can read about here if you're so > inclined: http://lowendmac.com/tech/x200.shtml . A lot of schools had > the 5200/100 LC models, and probably poisoned a good many minds for > Macintoshes :) > > If you're looking for a good All In One, I'd stick with the 5400/5500 > models, or go all the way to the G3 All In One. Much more capable > computers, even if they don't quite have the charms of the small > compacts or raw power of the later G3s/G4s > > I believe At Ease is still downloadable from Apple for free, although I > might be mistakenly remembering updates. > > Scott > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
