Freitag, 22. Juni 2012

PowerMac 6100 restored and working again

For a few Weeks I got a low priced PowerMac 6100 from eBay. The guy said that it might work but he could not test the Mac due to the missing Monitor.

When I received the Mac I couldn't believe what I saw! The back bezel was broken at  several places, and the motherboard with the backside connectors where completely rousty. This Baby was surely laying in a dirty wet cave for a long time. Of course the guy from eBay took only photos of the exterieur an the Front Panel. The CD Cover on the front was loose because of a brocken plastic thing.

Otherwise the specs of this Mac are as follow:

PowerMac 6100
  • Introduced on March 1997
  • Mac OS 7.1.2
  • PowerPC 601 / 60MHz  (first Mac with Motorola PowerPC processor)
  • Storage 160MB HardDrive (SCSI)
  • Apple 600i 2x CD ROM
  • Memory 8MB on Board antother 2x8MB 72pin SIMMS (total of 24MB)
For full sepcs on the PowerMac 6100 see the following Link:

Connectors:
  • 1 ADB
  • 1 HDI-45 (Display Connector)
  • 1 Geoport Modem Port
  • 1 Apple Serial Printer Port
  • 1 Ethernet (AUII) 
  • 1 SCSI Port
  • 1 Audio In an Audio Out Jack



So here are some of the first Photos of the Mac:



The inside with the HD, CD-ROM and Floppy removed;

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At teh Right you can see the rosty back side connectors;
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Inside look after replacing the Hard Disk and with the CD and Floppy drive installed;

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Front view with the case mounted (I sprayed the case in white);
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Back view with all the connectors and the new Bezel;

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This is the refurbished PowerMac 6100 with an Apple Extend Keyboard II connected
Just couldn't resist to try Space Quest 6 on it; (works great!)


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In my next Blog I will go into depth with the installation of the System as well as the special HDI-45 connector and all the Upgrades I installed.


Thank you for reading

//retrobitter\\