Power Macintosh 5260/100

[the731272]

is it 100 or 5620 because if it is 100 i would have the performa sound

[luderhow]

it's pretty slow

nice vid by the way

[NYz3R0dAY]

i have a Power Macintosh 5400/180. i love the higher pitched startup sound more than the ones in my B&W G3, Graphite G4 and my eMac

[runforit420]

The Power Macintosh 5500 was the best of that form factor.

[DELLandProductions]

lol its funny. this is the same computer that is on the first page of my US History textbook

[tubey1997alt]

in my old classroom they had ne of these same exact thing. me and my friends would mess around with the text-to-speech voices.

[kwg2005]

i remember using these in high school when they were brand new.

[themaritimeman]

Cool! That startup sound is one of my favorites among Macs.

I don't know what that LTU932 guy is talking about - this Mac and Macs today have completely different startup sounds, and it doesn't matter if it's a Macintosh brand or a Performa brand, a Performa uses the same motherboard as the Mac it's similar to.

[spirogryo]

you say this has a lan card,I have the same model the internal modem is broken as is an external supra modem I added on(broken) what is the part name

of the lan card and where would I get one.

I want to add one in to use my 5260/100

on high speed cable connection.

Please repond,thanks for the info.

[clarke1ismad]

great start sound i timed the start sequence it was 1:37.1 on the iPhone stop watch

[LTU932]

Sounds more like a Performa than a Powermac. The Powermac has the same startup sound (though somewhat lower pitched) Macs have today. According to the startup sound of your computer, it's a Performa.

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If you look very close, it actually does say "Power Macintosh" on the unit.

[LTU932]

I'm not saying I don't believe you, but if you recall, Macs at that time had different startup sounds according to their base models (plus Powerbooks at the time use the Quadra startup sounds).

Maybe your Powermac has a Performa motherboard inside, but anyway, let's not argue like that. Back in the day, we used to have a Performa 5200 series ourselves. That was one hell of a machine.

[hydraeus]

There are some Macs labelled Power Macintosh that have the same startup chime as the Performa. The Power Mac 5260 (as this is), 5300, 5400, 6200 and 6300.

Great video. Thanks for uploading.

[MacFreaks]

Many Power Macintosh'es have the same startup sounds as Performa's because the where the same, some info from MacTracker: The PowerMac 5260 replaced the 5200, adding a faster 100 MHz PPC 603e processor. In September, the 5260/120 was released, with a 120 MHz PPC 603e processor and 16 MB of RAM. The 5260 was also sold as the Performas 5260CD, 5270CD and 5260/120, and was discontinued in March 1997.

[lee4hmz]

@LTU932 There were PowerPC-based Performas between about 1995-1997. They didn't actually go away until the iMac came out in 1998. As for the sound, it's actually from the Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card (a board that would upgrade a Quadra to a 601 Power Mac); one of the dirty little secrets about the 5260/6260 was that it was a Quadra 630 with a built-in MPUC and a 603 CPU. (Why? Because Apple was out of money and this was cheap...)

[LTU932]

@lee4hmz We had one of those. A Performa 5300 IIRC with a PowerPC 603 CPU. It was our very first Mac and since then, I'm dual platform Mac and Windows.

[guitrman2487]

what os?

[ieeeeeeeeeeeee]

7.6

[jlaprise]

I just got given one of these....dunno what to do with it tho.........hmmmm.

[TechVideos2566]

How much RAM does yours have? Mine has 32MB. I installed 7.6.1 on mine last night. It used to have 8.6.

[ieeeeeeeeeeeee]

16 MB of RAM + ramdoubler

[VMKDarthVaderRox]

i have that running on os 9.1

[demon476]

are these still hard 2 find on like ebay....

[TechVideos2566]

There are a few out there. Look on eBay, because the 5260 was my first PowerPC Mac, and I love it to death. The 5260s are awesome. I am looking for a 5500, but I can't find one.

[th3sp0rk]

i am getting a 5500/225 (i kno it was 5500, just i forgot if it was a 5500/75 or a 5500/225 or somethin else.

[TechVideos2566]

225. The 75 is the 5200.

[jlaprise]

Wanna take mine?? seems I know nothing about the Mac.

[TechVideos2566]

No, I already have two of these styles of all in ones.

[jlaprise]

Ok, lol

[guitrman2487]

ill take it!! please for free!! i want a mac bad i dont car e if its old please!

[jlaprise]

Sorry, but I just gave it away day b4 yesterday.

It went to a 'collector' of old comps...the guy has a Trs80,AND IT WORKS!!!

anywayz, if I come across another one(they are popular here), I'll let you know, ok?

Cheers, Johnny

[guitrman2487]

ok thanks a lot , i would realy like one i have one of those old suckers in my room but i got the startup disk but wrong edition so if ya ever get one tell me, thanks alot ,alex

[HyperionGamer]

I love this Mac!

[ItachiUchihara]

u can run up to 9.1 on there maybe farther with xpostfacto

[TechVideos2566]

You can run up to OS X 10.2.3 on a 100MHz or 120MHz machine. I myself have a 5260/120 that this man responded to. I also have a 5400 that if I just upgrade some things, I'll be able to use OS X 10.3.5.

[TechVideos2566]

What I mean is, with Xpostfacto you can.

[TechVideos2566]

Thanks for the response! The 5260s are pretty rare today, and you are preserving HISTORY by salvaging that computer.

[th3sp0rk]

what system are you running on that? OS 7.5.6? And btw, I like your startup chime. The old ones are cool.

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it is running 7.6.1

[TechVideos2566]

7.6 was a good system.