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I have a Mac Performa 6400/200, but my printer is not working, I wat to buy a new printer but all the new ones required a System 8.0 or up, but my Mac has 7.5.
How can I upgraded it?Thanks

What you'll probably run into is the lack of
any printers that will plug into your serial
ports.In addition to upgrading to 8.6 or higher
(as Bob said), you'll probably also want to
get a USB PCI card. A decent one should
be $10-20 (check pricewatch.com,
deal-mac.com, macprice.com) and will
involve opening your Mac, but it's not
*that* hard to install.OS 8.6 is rather RAM-hungry, especially
compared to 7.x. If you don't have at least
64MB RAM in your system right now, get
two 64MB 5.0V EDO 168-pin DIMMs from
your favourite RAM vendor on
ramseeker.com and call it good. The
6400 can't take any more RAM than that,
but having 136MB will make things SO
much easier for you.With a USB card, a nice fat chunk of RAM,
and OS 8.6 or higher, you'll be all set.p

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