Who Has The Oldest, Most Used, Most Reliable Mac?

graeme d warren · June 13, 2002 4:18AM

Hi guys,

Just another silly thread for you all to chip into.

It never fails to amaze me how my Mum can still use her Performa 630 which must be about 7 or 8 years old now on a daily basis! If that isn't a good advert for Apple reliability, I don't know what is! It is still in pristine condition (save for the broken stand bit on the extended keyboard), and as far as I know, the only repair was repalcing the internal battery.

She still uses in on daily basis doing work for her school (she is a teacher) in ClarisWorks 4.0! (Rock on!)

Anyone else got similar tales of long living Macs still in good conditon, and in daily use?

macmatt · June 13, 2002 4:42AM

I'm still using my Mac Quadra 840av. It's been a great machine. It's never done me wrong. It's still running OS 7 something.

But still, I love my iMac.... but in my mind, the quadra has more heart...

crusader · June 13, 2002 12:05PM

Mac Classic II, Performa 636 CD.

mozillaman · June 13, 2002 7:10PM

Macintosh Classic. Had it since 1991, and still use it for word processing. Something about it's small monochrome screen, the tell-tale clicks of the HD, the slow wave of the screen from it's slightly decaying refresh rate gives me a sort of tactile feeling about it that helps me creatively.

But that's just me.

applenut · June 13, 2002 7:23PM

Not a Mac but my mother's secretaries still use Apple IIes for their job. unmodified and never saw a day of service

macaddict · June 14, 2002 9:43AM

Wow. What do they do with them? Type?

Wonder what sort of printer an Apple IIe can handle...hooray for dot matrix...

mozilla · June 14, 2002 10:14AM

Ah, I remember my ImageWriter well. It's soothing sounds would fill the room...

"Bleeeeeeeeeeem! Chip-chip-chip-chip-chip-chip! Bleeeeeeeeeem!"

kelib · June 14, 2002 2:41PM

Just stopped using my LC475. My 9500/200/196mb now the oldest machine I use. It's just rock solid. A bit slow on some tasks as you'd expect but stable and just fine for almost everything I do an a puter

spart · June 14, 2002 3:15PM

Up until last year my school was still using some Macintosh Classics and Macintosh LC's. They still use some LC 475's. I've only seen them serviced (not counting the stuff I screwed up

) once, and that was a battery replacement. Oh, and when the school updated to 8.1. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />

agent302 · June 14, 2002 5:03PM

My Dad still uses an old Quadra 605 in his office. And I'm pretty sure that the LC that's about to be banished from my brother's room is still functioning. Hehe, my dad 10 or so odd years ago: "40 MB hard drive? We'll never fill that."

sizzle chest · June 14, 2002 5:43PM

You guys are a lot more patient than I am. I was recently visiting my girlfriend's parents, and I sat down in front of the Performa 6200 I had given him a couple of years ago. I couldn't believe how slow it was! Agggh! Absolutely brutal. My Umax J700 is still OK though.

macronin · June 14, 2002 5:49PM

Current machine:

PowerTower Pro 225, dead stock...

Future machine:

check back about two (2) months after MWNY2002...

It will either be a new PowerMac G5 (knock on wood) or an iMac (if the new towers don't come out)...

microsoftosxp · June 14, 2002 5:55PM

i still have a macclassic running os 6. the funny thing about it is that it actually boots up faster than my brothers 1.4ghz athalon running windows xp. The mac classic is also more stable. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />

aquatic · June 14, 2002 6:11PM

MicrosoftOsXp I have to agree. It never ceases to amaze how the old compact Macs with System 6 boot to the Desktop instantly. Hopefully MRAM and stuff will bring us back to those days. Probably Microsoft will innovate a way even then to make Windows take forever to start up

Andy giveth, Bill taketh away.

MicrosoftOsXp why do you use such handle name?!

My Color Classic w/ Word 5.1a/7.6.1 is SOLID. A little slow but I use it every day. I love it. I'm going to stick a 6500AV in there some day, or maybe a Cube. It's the quintessential Mac.

It has a plastic holder of some sort (fits a mouse...weird contraption, and ugly too) glued to its side though. Any ideas on how to remove it without damaging my CC?

dust puppy · June 15, 2002 1:11AM

w00t! First post!

I have a SE/30 sitting in my room, still used frequently for word processing. That little beige box starts up so fast it's scary! Running System 6, a whopping 40 meg hard drive, 8 megs of RAM, oh, and a 2k modem! Bought the thing in 1989, we were on the cutting edge, I tell ya. But sometimes I think something else could've been done with that 3,000 dollars...

Dust Puppy

1seaside1 · June 15, 2002 12:10PM

PB 160 with PageMaker 4.0 and Word 5.1.

This computer has never crashed on me and Word is actually fun to use.

applenut · June 15, 2002 2:40PM

[quote]Originally posted by radar1503:

<strong>Wow. What do they do with them? Type?

Wonder what sort of printer an Apple IIe can handle...hooray for dot matrix...

</strong><hr></blockquote>

in the past year they have been given iMacs but they have years upon years of things saved on 5.25 inch floppies for the Apple IIes that they just prefer to stick with them for almost everything. I guess if it ani't broke don't try to fix it. right

plus the only way to transfer the Apple IIe files to the mac is to use old LCs with Apple IIe cards and 5.25 inch floppy drives. We have a ton of em but it takes too much time

bryan fury · June 15, 2002 3:40PM

840av - still runnin like a pussy cat

they dont build em like that anymore...

mac+ · June 16, 2002 12:00AM

[quote]Originally posted by Aquatik:

<strong>It has a plastic holder of some sort (fits a mouse...weird contraption, and ugly too) glued to its side though. Any ideas on how to remove it without damaging my CC?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Aquatik - I've still got my Classic II and I put that plastic holder (if it's the same thing we are talking about) on the side of the box - it was intended for the microphone that came with the machine. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to remove it without either breaking the holder or scuffing the case of the computer.

ghost_user_name · June 16, 2002 1:49AM

Apple IIcx. Had it for a while... too young to remember when it came out. It's down in the basement plugged in with it's portrait or document style monitor.

bryan fury · June 16, 2002 2:30AM

one interesting thing is that the macs of yesteryear look a lot like the pcs of now

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Who Has The Oldest, Most Used, Most Reliable Mac?

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