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Help needed to fix ancient Mac's

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Name: Amir Banuazizi
Date: November 22, 2005 at 03:06:50 Pacific
Subject: Help needed to fix ancient Mac's
OS: various
CPU/Ram: different

Comment:

Hi, I'm a PC & Windows user (actually I am a Microsoft Certified Professional). Recently a friend asked me to help her get the following systems up and running for a deaf/blind school. I need some help on recognizing the hardware/software for these systems...
Macintosh LC II + Color Monitor (M1212)
1 x VRAM SIMM (used), 80 MB SCSI HDD
Macintosh LC III (M1254) + Color Monitor (M1212)
1 x DRAM SIMM (used), 500 MB IDE HDD
Macintosh II VX (M1350)
Macintosh 7200/90 Power PC
1 GB HDD
iMac M5521
IN/400/64/10/CD/128P/56K
The LCII and III's have problems, III comes up sounding music then nothing happens. The II comes up, then shows a diskette with a blinking ? on top of it...
Others I haven't tried yet.
My questions: Can I update the OS on these systems ? if yes, then how ?
What are each like ? Like I know the iMac would be like a P2 64 mb ram and so on... but is 7200/90 like 90 MHz ?
and Can I install Winnt4 on the power PC ?
thnx in advance.
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Response Number 1

Name: plainandsimple
Date: November 22, 2005 at 04:18:48 Pacific

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MACS need a MAC O/S versions 7.1 and 7.5 are FREE
You can still find lots of info at:
http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.legacy/index.html
.. this will let you know what O/S is supported
http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
..older software
It is not really possible to compare Intel x86 CPU with Motorola/PPC CPU, completely different architecture.

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Response Number 2

Name: plainandsimple
Date: November 23, 2005 at 23:46:26 Pacific

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http://www.mactracker.ca/

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Response Number 3

Name: gleeb
Date: November 26, 2005 at 12:31:27 Pacific

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www.lowendmac.com
Look at the profiles. It's the only site you'll ever need.

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Response Number 4

Name: Amir Banuazizi
Date: December 11, 2005 at 05:16:32 Pacific

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Thanks people.
Macintosh II VX (M1350) has problems....
iMac M5521 doesn't have a keyboard / mouse port ! I mean there are no PS2 ports and when I turned it on, nothing happened, so forget that too.
Macintosh 7200/90 Power PC came on, very slowly. even if I could install Winnt4 on it, I don't think i'd like to...
thnx for the links.
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Response Number 5

Name: hexstar
Date: December 29, 2005 at 21:37:19 Pacific

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I believe with the iMac both the keyboard and mouse are
USB...

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Response Number 6

Name: Amir Banuazizi
Date: January 7, 2006 at 23:55:38 Pacific

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I can't find a USB port on it ! there's one that looks like a firewire, but for a mac that old, would it have firewire ?
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