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  • The Power Macintosh 6200 (also sold under variations of the name Performa 6200, Performa 6300 and Power Macintosh 6300) is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. From May 1995 to July 1997. The 6200 is the PowerPC-based replacement for the Quadra 630, with the same form factor and price range.In early 1997, the rather different Power Macintosh.
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The Performa 6300 (a.k.a. 6260, 6290, 6310) replaced the 6200‘s 75 MHz 603 with a faster 100 MHz 603e CPU. The 6300 was replaced with a 120 MHz model in April 1996.

To save money, Apple based the x200 motherboard on the Quadra 605 with its 25 MHz system bus and 32-bit memory, even though the 603 is a 64-bit chip. Apple also used an 8-bit IDE controller for the hard drive instead of the more expensive SCSI used in earlier Macs. (This is the kind of thinking that had crippled the LC with a 32-bit CPU on a 16-bit bus five years earlier.)

Because of unusual architecture, installing a 25-pin SCSI terminator to the SCSI port (if you have no SCSI devices attached) will improve network stability. Also, if you are using a serial printer and no modem, connect the printer to the modem port to avoid network problems.

Open Transport 1.2, which ships with Mac OS 8, solves many network problems.

A word of warning: The serial ports don’t support hardware handshaking, which is required for all modems 9600 bps and faster. You must use a comm slot modem for good throughput.

FWB HD Toolkit is a much better driver for the IDE hard drive than Apple’s.

Be sure to read Performa and Power Mac 5200, 5300, 6200, 6300 Issues. Then you’ll understand why we call it a Road Apple – and the worst Mac hardware ever.

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Details

  • 6300 introduced 1995.10.16; discontinued
    6260 introduced 1996.06.19; discontinued
    6290 introduced 1996.01.27; discontinued
    6310 introduced 1996.02.14; discontinued
  • requires System 7.5.1 through 9.1
  • CPU: 100 MHz PPC 603e
  • Bus: 40 MHz
  • Performance: XXX (relative to SE)
  • ROM: 4 MB
  • RAM: 16 MB, expandable to 64 MB using 70ns 72-pin SIMMs (two slots, each supports a 4, 8, 16, or 32 MB SIMM), installing RAM in pairs of identical speed gives slightly more efficient performance
  • VRAM: 1 MB
  • Video: 640 x 480 at 16-bits, 832 x 624 at 8-bits
  • L2 cache: 256 KB
  • Hard drive: 1.2 GB IDE
  • CD-ROM: 8x
  • Microphone: standard 3.5mm minijack, compatible with line-level input including Apple’s PlainTalk microphone
  • ADB: 1 port for keyboard and mouse
  • DIN-8 serial ports on back of computer (modem port disabled when comm slot modem present; printer port disabled when comm slot ethernet card present)
  • SCSI: DB-25 connector on back of computer
  • video input slot
  • comm slot, occupied by 28.8 kbps modem
  • one LC PDS slot
  • Gestalt ID: 42
  • Size (HxWxD): 4.3″ x 12.6″ x 16.5″
  • Weight: 19 pounds

Accelerators & Upgrades

  • Power Mac 6360 motherboard and power supply
  • third-party video card will improve performance

Online Resources

  • Low End Mac’s Compleat Guide to Mac OS 9, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 2008.05.12. Mac OS 9 remains fast and stable, but Classic software hasn’t kept up with the changing internet. Which Macs support OS 9, where to buy it, and how to update to 9.2.2.
  • Environmentally Responsible Retirement for Old Macs, Rick Lawson, Pioneers in Mac Development, 2008.06.13. After you’ve scavenged what useful parts you can from your old Mac, what’s the most environmentally friendly way to dispose of the rest?
  • Know Your Mac’s Upgrade Options, Phil Herlihy, The Usefulness Equation, 2008.08.26. Any Mac can be upgraded, but it’s a question of what can be upgraded – RAM, hard drive, video, CPU – and how far it can be upgraded.
  • Low End Mac’s Comm Slot FAQ, Tommy Yune, 2018.03.20
  • Creating Classic Mac Boot Floppies in OS X, Paul Brierley, The ‘Book Beat, 2008.08.07. Yes, it is possible to create a boot floppy for the Classic Mac OS using an OS X Mac that doesn’t have Classic. Here’s how.
  • The Compressed Air Keyboard Repair, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 2008.07.24. If your keyboard isn’t working as well as it once did, blasting under the keys with compressed air may be the cure.
  • More G4 upgrade advice, secure disk wipes, 500 MHz iMacs with Tiger in action, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag, 2008.05.09. The importance of securely clearing your hard drive before you pass on your Mac, Pismo and closed lid mode, G3 iMacs in the classroom, and more thoughts on upgrading G4 Power Macs.
  • Vintage Mac Video and Monitor Mania, Adam Rosen, Adam’s Apple, 2007.12.17. Vintage Macs and monitors didn’t use VGA connectors. Tips on making modern monitors work with old Macs.
  • Getting Inside Vintage Macs and Swapping Out Bad Parts, Adam Rosen, Adam’s Apple, 2007.12.14. When an old Mac dies, the best source of parts is usually another dead Mac with different failed parts.
  • Solving Mac Startup Problems, Adam Rosen, Adam’s Apple, 2007.12.12. When your old Mac won’t boot, the most likely culprits are a dead PRAM battery or a failed (or failing) hard drive.
  • The 10 worst Macs ever, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 2007.10.23. The ten worst Macs of all time – and one of them came out just last year.
  • Interchangeabilty and Compatibility of Apple 1.4 MB Floppy SuperDrives, Sonic Purity, Mac Daniel, 2007.09.26. Apple used two kinds of high-density floppy drives on Macs, auto-inject and manual inject. Can they be swapped?
  • Apple’s Consumer Performa Line, 1992 to 1997, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 2007.09.14. Apple decided to pursue the average consumer by renaming existing Macs, bundling them with software, and putting their colorful boxes in regular retail outlets.
  • Restoring PowerBook batteries, MB/GB confusion, upgrading a Performa 6300, Road Apples, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag, 2007.08.20. Also information on Mac128k.com, the market for a midrange Macintosh, iBook reliability, an alternative to Name Munger, and thanks from a reader.
  • Performa 6300 ‘the beginning of a beautiful friendship’, Antonio Bunt, My First Mac, 2007.07.24. “…these machines really caught my eye and my heart. I never looked back, and I have been a Mac user ever since.”
  • Mac System 7.5.5 Can Do Anything Mac OS 7.6.1 Can, Tyler Sable, Classic Restorations, 2007.06.04. Yes, it is possible to run Internet Explorer 5.1.7 and SoundJam with System 7.5.5. You just need to have all the updates – and make one modification for SoundJam.
  • Appearance Manager Allows Internet Explorer 5.1.7 to Work with Mac OS 7.6.1, Max Wallgren, Mac Daniel, 2007.05.23. Want a fairly modern browser with an old, fast operating system? Mac OS 7.6.1 plus the Appearance Manager and Internet Explorer may be just what you want.
  • Format Any Drive for Older Macs with Patched Apple Tools, Tyler Sable, Classic Restorations, 2007.04.25. Apple HD SC Setup and Drive Setup only work with Apple branded hard drives – until you apply the patches linked to this article.
  • System 7 Today, advocates of Apple’s ‘orphan’ Mac OS 7.6.1, Tommy Thomas, Welcome to Macintosh, 2006.10.26. Why Mac OS 7.6.1 is far better for 68040 and PowerPC Macs than System 7.5.x.
  • Mac OS 8 and 8.1: Maximum Size, Maximum Convenience, Tyler Sable, Classic Restorations, 2006.09.11. Mac OS 8 and 8.1 add some useful new features and tools, and it can even be practical on 68030-based Macs.
  • Customizing Mac OS 9, Nathan Thompson, Embracing Obsolescence, 2006.08.01. Fiddling with themes, picking a browser, and making the Classic Mac OS work just the way you want it to.
  • Floppy drive observations: A compleat guide to Mac floppy drives and disk formats, Scott Baret, Online Tech Journal, 2006.06.29. A history of the Mac floppy from the 400K drive in the Mac 128K through the manual-inject 1.4M SuperDrives used in the late 1990s.
  • System 7.6.1 is perfect for many older Macs, John Martorana, That Old Mac Magic, 2006.03.24. Want the best speed from your old Mac? System 7.6.1 can give you that with a fairly small memory footprint – also helpful on older Macs.
  • System 7.5 and Mac OS 7.6: The beginning and end of an era, Tyler Sable, Classic Restorations, 2006.02.15. System 7.5 and Mac OS 7.6 introduced many new features and greater modernity while staying within reach of most early Macintosh models.
  • Web browser tips for the classic Mac OS, Nathan Thompson, Embracing Obsolescence, 2006.01.03. Tips on getting the most out of WaMCom, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, iCab, Opera, and WannaBe using the classic Mac OS.
  • The best browsers for PowerPC Macs and the classic Mac OS, Nathan Thompson, Embracing Obsolescence, 2005.12.16. Two browsers stand out from the pack: iCab 3 is modern and remains under development, and WaMCom brings Mozilla to older Macs.
  • Why you should use Mac OS 7.6 to get the most out of vintage Macs, Thomas Ahart, The Productive Mac, 2005.12.12. Although you may be able to run OS 8 or 9 on your old Mac, you’ll generally find better performance using Mac OS 7.6.
  • The 10 worst Macs ever built, Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac, 2001.08.06
  • Guide to LC PDS Video Cards. Includes Focus, Radius, and RasterOps cards for the LC processor direct slot.
  • PDS Power Macs: Road Apples?, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, 9/29/00. These Macs aren’t bad, just limited. Here’s how to make the most of them.
  • Can I Speed a 6200 or 5200 on the Net?, Mac Daniel
  • Performa 6300, 5200 questions, Mac Daniel
  • Apple Specs for Performa 6300, 6260, 6390, 6310
  • Performa and Power Mac 5200, 5300, 6200, 6300 Issues by Scott L. Barber
  • Modem performance using FreePPP and OT PPP on at 5320, Adrian Winnard

Cautions

  • Internal HD Format: Cannot See IDE Drives (Apple Knowledge Base 18360) notes that due to changes in the way modern IDE drives are formatted at the factory, early versions of Apple HD SC Setup (ones that come with System 7.5.1 and earlier) will not recognize them. You should boot System 7.5.2 or later and use Drive Setup 1.0.3 or higher with these drives.
  • This highest PIO mode this model supports is Mode 3 (11.1 MB/s), Macintosh: Using Third Party IDE Hard Disks
  • Macs with IDE hard drive do not provide SCSI termination power, depending on external SCSI devices to provide it. For more details, see SCSI Termination Power.
  • On most models, the serial ports do not support hardware handshaking necessary for high speed (9600 bps or higher) modems. However, Global Village Teleport Platinum modems implement handshaking on the modem, providing 28.8 kbps and faster telecommunications. (The final revision of the motherboard does support hardware handshaking.)

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In the middle of researching my article on Apple’s x200 series of Power Macintosh and Performa computers something dawned on me: I never sold my old Performa 6300CD. I gave it to my mom. She used it to browse the web and exchange emails for a few years, and then it ended up in storage.

The next time I went for a visit I asked her about it. And I found it right where she said it was, sitting in a dusty box along with the keyboard, mouse, DB15 to VGA adapter, and a Supra 56k modem.

I grabbed it, brought it home, and carefully cleaned it inside and out. I didn’t think that it would start up. I figured either a component would be damaged by age or that the hard drive would be useless. But when I plugged it in it came right back to life, booting Mac OS 8 and starting up EarthLink dialer and Claris Emailer.

15+ years have passed since that Mac got tossed aside yet it started up like it was yesterday. If only everything was this reliable.

Restoring a Classic Macintosh

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So what does a computer nerd think about when confronted with a digital antique?

Upgrades.

First thing I did was replace the PRAM battery with a 4.5v AAA case made by eBayer polaroid_pict and sold at his 68K Mac Store. I highly recommend this case for Macs that used the Rayovac 4.5 volt battery. If you do buy one of these be sure to use lithium AAA batteries or low self discharge rechargeable batteries like those sold under the Eneloop brand. You don’t want alkaline batteries to leak like a faucet, especially if the Mac gets stored away again.

Second was installing a Farallon LC PDS Ethernet card. I got this from the 68K Mac Store as well. These Ethernet cards work great so long as you manually configure them. (The DHCP implementation is too old for modern routers.)

Third was upgrading the RAM. It already had 48MB (32MB+16MB) from a previous upgrade in the 90’s, but now it’s maxed out thanks to a second 32MB 72-pin SIMM from eBay. If you ever upgrade the RAM on one of these Macs see my note on installation below.

I also tried a 128MB SIMM just to see what would happen, but this particular model is limited to addressing 64MB of RAM no matter what you put in. In fact larger SIMMs will cause problems. The 6300 would boot with the 128MB SIMM but immediately experienced problems with screen redraws and soon crashed.

Finally I replaced the 1.2GB drive with a spare 40GB Maxtor drive. I partitioned it as follows:

  • 1GB Macintosh HD 91 – HFS+ for running Mac OS 9.1.
  • 2GB Macintosh HD 75 – HFS for running the original System 7.5 that came with this Performa. I gave this partition a little more space because System 7 cannot access HFS+ partitions.
  • 1GB Macintosh HD 81 – HFS+ for running Mac OS 8.1.
  • 1GB Macintosh HD 86 – HFS+ for running Mac OS 8.6.
  • 35GB Mac Drive – HFS+ for storing everything that does not need to run on System 7.

You’ll note that all of the OS partitions are safely within the 8GB limit for the IDE controller on this generation of Mac. Also: I have not personally tested all of the disc images linked above. I actually still have old CDs with most of these versions of Mac OS.

None of the PDS video cards seem all that interesting for a Power Mac, so I doubt there will be any more upgrades unless I decide to grab an old TV card.

Getting The RAM To Fit

SIMMs with memory chips on both sides barely fit inside the 6300CD. I assume this would be true for the Performa 6320, any of the 6200 variants, and likely the 5200/5300 models as well. You have to remove the heat sink in order to install the 2nd SIMM. But the SIMM will clear the heat sink once installed.

Never run the computer without the heat sink, even just to test the new RAM. When you reinstall the heat sink you need to clean off the old thermal paste and replace it with a similar amount of paste. I generally use Arctic Silver. The original paste was in a nice circle in the center of the CPU. You don’t have to have a perfect circle, just a small amount of paste covering the same area. My 16MB module only had chips on one side so I didn’t run into this back in the day. But I’m not sure if there are any 32MB modules available like that now, or how rare and costly they might be.

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So how does an old Power Mac compare to modern machines?

Surprisingly well if you ignore the web. The Mac OS 9 Finder feels a bit sluggish but is definitely usable. Mac OS 8.x feels fine and System 7.5 is actually rather fast. Messing around with old apps I was pleasantly surprised at just how responsive the 6300 felt on any of the four OS partitions. The OS and office type applications feel perfectly usable even by today’s standards.

As I said in my rebuttal to the Road Apple articles, I do not recall this being a bad or slow computer. My impression back then was that it was a bit quicker than a 6100/60 with the L2 cache card, and about the same as an 8100/80, two Power Macs I spent significant time on. Which is consistent with its MacBench scores. I was very pleased with this Mac during the time that I used it. Playing around with it today only reinforces my impression of where it stands in Apple history.

Of course any modern machine races ahead with demanding tasks. Editing a 1920×1080 image in Photoshop is slower than editing DSLR photos on a current Mac. Network transfers are severely limited by the 10 Mbps Ethernet. And multimedia CDs are laughably primitive by the standards of the modern web. The programs that do run comparably well are lacking features that today’s user takes for granted, such as sophisticated auto complete.

Yet I can’t help but be impressed with how well a lot of every day office type applications run, as well as some of the programming tools and compilers.

Surfing The Web

So what is the web like on a Mac this old? Better than on a Mac Plus even if getting the web running on a Plus is infinitely cooler.

Classilla will run on a 6300, just not very well. It takes forever to launch, respond to commands, and download/render pages. I get the feeling it’s just not made for this class of machine and may work better on G3 and higher Macs with a lot more RAM.

Internet Explorer 5 runs much better but suffers from a now antiquated web engine. It has no hope of correctly rendering or even reaching most modern sites. JavaScript errors generally cause crashes, sometimes a system wide crash, so JavaScript is better left turned off. With scripting off it does an admirable job considering its age, at least on the sites it can reach.

Netscape Communicator feels about the same as IE5. But it can reach more sites and it downloads files faster. Another plus is that the JavaScript engine doesn’t crash like the one in IE5 so you can leave it on. It can’t run a lot of modern code, but it can at least run some. If you’re going to try browsing the web on an old Power Mac I think this might be your browser.

In all cases I gave the test browser as much RAM as I could.

To be clear the 6300 is not usable as a daily web browser. Browsing the web with a machine from this era is purely for the challenge. One of those things you do just to see if it can be done. 20 years have gone by since this Mac was released which is an eternity for Moore’s Law. It’s hard to overstate just how powerful our computers are today by comparison. The fact that a computer with 64 MB of RAM and a 100 MHz 603e can access and render any of today’s web is impressive.

Should You Get One?

If you’re interested in running classic Mac OS and old applications you could certainly do worse than a 6300. That said, you can also do better.

If you happen to have any of the early Power Macs, or run into one for next to nothing, don’t throw it away. At the very least clean it up, verify that it works, and sell it to someone who wants it. Even if it doesn’t work the parts can help keep another Power Mac running, so keep it away from the recycle center if possible.

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But if you have a little cash to spend and are interested in classic Mac OS you can easily get a G4 PowerBook, iMac, or tower. (Note that G4 Macs later then these models cannot boot OS 9.) These often go for $100-$150 and, sometimes just $50. They can also dual boot into Mac OS X which gives you access to newer applications.

If you don’t care about running Mac OS 9 directly but do care about classic apps then a Power Mac G5 or iMac G5 may be a better bet. Mac OS 10.4.11 Tiger was the last release to support the classic layer. Compatibility in the classic layer is almost as good as running OS 9 directly, games being one notable exception, and a G5 is faster than any G4 Mac. Thanks to TenFourFox these machines are still usable on the modern web.

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There’s also emulation to consider. SheepShaver is particular good at running a wide range of old Macintosh software, though it struggles with some games much like the OS X classic layer. There’s even a Mac Plus emulator written in JavaScript and one which runs on a wrist watch.

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Of course nostalgia need not obey reason. If you have fond memories of this machine, or want to see what this era of Power Mac was like, by all means pick one up. You can still find them on eBay from time to time or on your local Craigslist.