On Nov 24, 3:04 pm, retroc64 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just got my Performa 450 and was wondering if people knew of great
> personal sites or blogs about this great machine? Also, are there
> still hardware, software vendors who make stuff for it?
I had one of these and I put 32MB ram in and put linux-m68k on besides
the macos7.6. Its gone now... It was my first desktop computer in many
years at home and a great pal to encourage me (now I have a huge mac
collection from 1994 - 2000 w/ upgrades galore).
Its good to find a larger hard drive if the original is in it. Also a
network card,
they are known as the lcIII type, and work also in some of the quadras
or
later performas such as 475 and 630.
nobody makes stuff for it anymore but there are plenty parts on ebay,
and other
sites (I got some parts locally on CraigsList, and mice at thrift
store).
sites and blogs for vintage macs do exist but I haven't kept track of
them very well.
wish people on the list could get together and collect a list here. Of
course you can google...
There are always sites like low end mac and everymac and apple history
but amateur sites may come and go. My advice is searching in fairly
general terms
(I am not the best always with google). Wikipedia has good articles on
old macs and they are contribute by community editing each other and
they usually have some links too.
Once in a while people make vintage mac webservers and their is a
contest called Retro computing challenge...
>
> Last but certainly not least, I can find adapters that let you take an
> ADB keyboard/mouse and convert to USB but not the other way around. I
> would love to hook up a USB keyboard, mouse to the 450. Is this
> possible?
>
There was some discussion on this list by a board maker about making
a usb card for vintage macs, which was not too hopeful. Never
happened,
most likely never will, sorry...
Do you lack a mac keyboard ? There are some better adb mice than the
apple standard one button thing. I have a macally with two buttons, a
roller-ball (on top)
stationary type with two buttons and a "thinking mouse" with four
buttons. Each
has software to get nice things from the buttons (this is not a offer
to sell any of the above)
> Thanks.
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