8.5 Installation/PM 6100 DOS-compatible?

macmaniacmacmaniac
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Hi Guys and Gals,

My brother is having trouble installing OS 8.5 on a PM 6100. Is 16 Mgs of RAM enough? He is installing more and trying again. Any idaes?

Also, in checking the spec sheets for the 6100s, I came across this: 'Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible'

What's the story on that?

Thanks,

Steve

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    jante99jante99 Posts: 539member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by macmaniac

    Hi Guys and Gals,

    My brother is having trouble installing OS 8.5 on a PM 6100. Is 16 Mgs of RAM enough? He is installing more and trying again. Any idaes?

    Also, in checking the spec sheets for the 6100s, I came across this: 'Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible'

    What's the story on that?

    Thanks,

    Steve



    Wasn't there an add on card you could buy to get DOS to run?



    I think my Dad had one of these and thought is was one of the worst computers he ever had.
  • Reply 2 of 2
    microtrashmicrotrash Posts: 57member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by macmaniac

    Hi Guys and Gals,

    My brother is having trouble installing OS 8.5 on a PM 6100. Is 16 Mgs of RAM enough? He is installing more and trying again. Any idaes?



    As i remember, 8.5 need at least 24MB of RAM, but I suggest 32 for "good" (good is relative on a 6100) performance.

    Quote:

    Also, in checking the spec sheets for the 6100s, I came across this: 'Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible'

    What's the story on that?

    Thanks,

    Steve



    DOS Compatible mean that you can buy a PC processor card and put it in your mac. then you can run window on an hardware and real PC card. But you're limited to 486-33mhz to 586 133mhz or something like that. It was usefull at that time because software emulator where real "junk" as opposed of today' VPC 6 performance...
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