An Apple Power Macintosh 6100/60 (1994)

The Power Macintosh 6100 was Apple Computer's first computer to use the new PowerPC RISC type processor created by IBM and Motorola. Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics PowerPC is a RISC Instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple – IBM – Motorola alliance known as AIM International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology Motorola Inc ( is an American, multinational Fortune 100, Telecommunications company based in Schaumburg Illinois. It came in the Centris 610's "pizza box" low-profile case, and superseded the Quadra series that used Motorola's 68040 processor, Apple's previous high end workstation line. The Macintosh Quadra 610 the Macintosh Centris 610 are two closely-related Personal computers that are a part of Apple Computer 's Quadra and The Macintosh Quadra series was Apple Computer 's product family of professional high-end Apple Macintosh Personal computers built using the Motorola The Motorola 68040 is a Microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1990.

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System Software 7. 1. 2

Mac OS 7. 6. 1

Overview

Power Macintosh 6100 was first introduced in 1994, and featured a 60 MHz (later 66 MHz) PowerPC 601 processor. It was later complemented by an AV version, which featured additional audio and visual enhancements such as composite and S-video input/output and full 48 kHz 16-bit DAT-resolution sound processing, invaluable to multimedia professionals. Composite video is the format of an Analog television (picture only signal before it is combined with a sound signal and modulated onto an RF Super Video or Separated Video abbreviated S-Video and also known as Y/C is an analog video signal that carries the video data as two separate Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony in the mid 1980s Apple also released a PC-compatible model of the 6100 called the Power Macintosh 6100 DOS Compatible. DOS, short for "Disk Operating System" is a shorthand term for several closely related Operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market This version came with a card that featured an Intel 80486DX2 processor and a single SIMM RAM slot that used the same type of RAM to that in the Power Mac itself, and also sported standard PC VGA and joystick ports. The Intel 's i486DX2 is a CPU produced by Intel that was introduced in 1989. A SIMM, or single in-line memory module, is a type of memory module containing Random access memory used in Computers from the early 1980s to the late 1990s The term Video Graphics Array ( VGA) refers specifically to the display hardware first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, but through its widespread The game port is the traditional connector for Video game input devices on X86 -based PCs. One could easily run the Macintosh interface and DOS/Windows 3.1 side by side, even on different monitors if one so desired. Windows 31x was a major release of Microsoft Windows. Several editions were released between 1992 and 1994 succeeding Windows 3

Notable was the new startup and "sad mac" chimes: instead of the electronic "bong" that was the previous norm, it played a guitar chord strummed by jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan, and instead of the "Chimes of Doom" arpeggio that played when there was a hardware error at startup, there was the sound of a car crashing. Stanley Jordan ( July 31, 1959) is an American Jazz / Jazz fusion Guitarist, best known for his development of the touch The Chimes of Death, also known as Hawaiian Death Chimes, are the Macintosh equivalent of an IBM PC POST error beep.

This model and the other early NuBus-based Power Macs (7100, 8100 and Workgroup Server 9150) were replaced by the Power Macintosh PCI series released in 1995, although the 6100 DOS compatible continued in production until 1996, even though Apple had already released the anticipated "PC Personality Card" in 1995 that plugged into one of the PCI slots of the newer Power Macs. NuBus is a 32-bit parallel Computer bus, originally developed at MIT as a part of the NuMachine Workstation The Power Macintosh 7100 was a high-end Apple Macintosh Personal computer that was designed manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from March 1994 The Power Macintosh 8100 (Codenames "Cold Fusion" "Flagship" also sold in Japan as the Power Macintosh 8115 and with bundled server software Apple Workgroup Server (AWS or sometimes WGS and later Macintosh Server, were the names given to selected models of Macintosh computers which were sold by The Peripheral Component Interconnect, or PCI Standard (commonly PCI) specifies a Computer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a Computer This card featured a 66 MHz Pentium processor, which was considered very fast at that time. The Pentium brand refers to Intel 's single-core x86 Microprocessor based on the P5 fifth-generation Microarchitecture.

Generally considered to be the slowest of all the Power Macintoshes in terms of processor speed, the 6100 series was eventually able to be upgraded through third party solutions such as Sonnet Technologies Crescendo G3 NuBus (up to 500 MHz) and G4 NuBus (up to 360 MHz; discontinued) and Newer Technology's MaxPower G3 processor upgrades. Newer Technology is a supplier of upgrades and peripherals for the Apple Macintosh computer

Specifications

AKA: Performa 6110CD, Performa 6112CD, Performa 6115CD, Performa 6116CD, Performa 6117CD, Performa 6118CD, WG Server 6150 series

• Codename: Piltdown Man
• CPU: PowerPC 601
• CPU Speed: 60/66 MHz
• FPU: integrated
• Bus Architecture: NuBus
• Bus Speed: 30/33 MHz
• Data Path: 64 bit
• ROM: 4 MiB Old World ROM
• RAM Type: 72 pin EDO or FPM SIMMs (install in pairs of equal MiB amounts and equal types)
• Maximum (fastest) RAM Speed: 60 ns
• Minimum (slowest) RAM Speed: 80 ns
• Onboard RAM: 8 MiB soldered to logic board
• RAM Slots: 2
• Maximum RAM: 72 MiB (Apple's old official amount) (higher RAM amounts are possible but only with increased risk of heat and stability issues)
• Level 1 Cache: 16 KiB data, 16 KiB instruction (32 KiB total)
• Level 2 Cache: optional
• VRAM: 640 KiB DRAM "borrowed" from system RAM (2 MiB w/ Power Macintosh AV card)
• Maximum Resolution: 1152x870 at thousands of colors (w/ AV card)
• Slots: PDS or 7" NuBus (AV card fills both)
• Floppy Drive: 1. The Macintosh Performa series was Apple Computer 's Consumer product family of Apple Macintosh Personal computers from 1992 until 1997 when the Apple Workgroup Server (AWS or sometimes WGS and later Macintosh Server, were the names given to selected models of Macintosh computers which were sold by The "Piltdown Man" is a famous hoax consisting of fragments of a skull and jawbone collected in 1912 from a gravel pit at Piltdown a village near Uckfield The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC processors built NuBus is a 32-bit parallel Computer bus, originally developed at MIT as a part of the NuMachine Workstation A mebibyte (a contraction of me ga bi nary byte) is a unit of Information or Computer storage, abbreviated MiB. Old World ROM Macintosh computers are the Macintosh models that use a Macintosh Toolbox ROM chip usually in a socket (but soldered to the motherboard in A SIMM, or single in-line memory module, is a type of memory module containing Random access memory used in Computers from the early 1980s to the late 1990s A kibibyte (a contraction of ki lo bi nary byte) is a unit of Information or Computer storage, established by the International Processor Direct Slot or PDS, was a solution (actually a whole number of different solutions introduced by Apple Computer, in several of their Macintosh 44 MB SuperDrive
• Optical Drive: optional 2x CD-ROM Apple 300i (internal 50-pin SCSI)
• Hard Disk: 250 MB - 700 MB (internal 50-pin SCSI)
• Ethernet: AAUI-15
• ADB: 1
• Serial: 2 (printer & fax/modem)
• SCSI: DB-25
• Video Out: HDI-45
• Audio Out: stereo 16 bit mini
• Audio In: stereo 16 bit mini
• Speaker(s): mono
• Gestalt ID: 75
• Power: 210 watts
• Weight: 14. SuperDrive is a trademark used by Apple Inc for two different storage drives from 1988–1999 to refer to a high-density Floppy disk drive capable of reading all AppleCD was a range of early SCSI -based CD ROM drives for Apple Macintosh Personal computers manufactured and sold by Apple Computer Apple Attachment Unit Interface ( AAUI) is a mechanical re-design by Apple of the standard Attachment Unit Interface (AUI used to connect Ethernet The HDI-45 was one of Apple Computer's proprietary cable-to-onboard video connectors 5 lb
• Dimensions: 3. 4" H x 16. 3" W x 15. 6" D (86 mm x 414 mm x 396 mm)
• Minimum OS: 7.1.2 (60 MHz version), 7.5 (66 MHz version)
• Maximum OS: 9.1
• Introduced: March 1994
• Discontinued: May 1996

External links

• apple-history.com
• Power Macintosh 6100 at LowEndMac.com
• Power Mac 6100 Upgrade Guide