i've recently ugraded from a 7200/90 to a 7300/200. my good it flies in comparison. i think in terms of archetecture and upgradeablity it has to be one of the finest of computers ever. classic cars - we should have the equivalent of the brighton rally for computers by now surely?

Hi cookie..
My mac is a bit worn off currently running mac os 8.6 and a bit slow, the spec are as below :
Power Mac 7200/90 (Catalyst)
PPC 601 90mhz chip
1GB SCSI drive
48MB RAM
Running OS 8.6
No add on card installed

(I too have the urged to port linux but don't know how) :cheesy:

This post is coming from my 1997 power Computing / power tower Pro 225 mhz / 5 fast wide scsi drives . I love the machine a lot , but it's replacement should be here in the next couple days. I have usb and firewire in my power tower pro.

I run 8.6 on the power computing machine and my powerbase 180 / 603e smaller tower machine. I also have a 6400 performa 180 which has been a reliable machine as well.

Of interest is that nasa purchased many of the power tower pro machines. These machines were serious power at the time. My brother in law's 1996 power tower pro came with 4 hard drives each 4 gig or better , he was running 1 gig of ram back then.

These older machines were tough and easy to service , and had lots of upgrade capability. The only thing I can't remember how to do is to open up the performa 6400 to add a second drive. The top or front upper panel come off, but I don't remember exactly how any more. If you remember ... drop me a response or a note thanks ...