>Hello everyone,
>
>I would like opinions on which Macs to collect. I have a source of
>older Macs, and while the 'one of each' theory sounds good, its a
>bit impractal.
>
>What I would like to end up with is a list that looks like this:
>
>128K Mac Original
>Mac II First color
>Blah Blah First PPC
You've got a problem on this and the notebook as there wasn't a "First",
there was the first
PowerMac 6100/60 - March '94
PowerMac 7100/66 - March '94
PowerMac 8100/80 - March '94
>
>Blah2 First Notebook
Mac Portable - late '89 (not a notebook)
PowerBook 100 - October '91
PowerBook 140 - October '91
PowerBook 170 - October '91
>
>SE30 Powerful small footprint mac..
>
>I am reasonably familiar with the Mac line up to about the IIci/cx timeframe.
>I am completely unfamiliar with the PowerPC line.
>
>All opinions welcome, reply to me or to the list.
>
>thanks,
>
>Kelly
>KFergason_at_aol.com
Well, you might want to turn off HTML when posting to this list. If I'd
been posting reading from a UNIX box like I normally do these days instead
of my PowerMac G4, I'd have ignored your questions because they'd have been
to much trouble to read.
Also I think you might want to find a copy of the following book:
Macworld Mac & PowerMac Secrets 2nd Edition
by David Pogue & Joseph Schorr
IDG Books (c) 1994
ISBN 1-56884-175-2
It's where I got the above info and has information on all the Mac's you
list above as well as help on software of the era. I picked it up when I
got my first Mac in '95 (a beautiful PowerBook 520c that changed what I
expect from consumer oriented computers (I've used them since about '81)).
Wasn't really a help from the user standpoint, but had lots of interesting
reading and some cool software (3 floppies). Should be fairly easy to find
a copy as the 2nd Ed. made it through at least 4 printings.
Zane
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