I have one in my bedroom, but it doesn't have the TV card (but my Performa 638CD does, plus a monitor twice the size) and the screen blew up... I'd be willing to part it out though.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Britt Dodd<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
