Power Mac 6100 Upgrade Sources Page

• Introduction--Introduction
• The table--The table listing all the info
• Resources--Some key online resources, including sources for replacement or service parts not covered in the table
• Usenet--A blurb about Usenet
• For Sale--I'm selling off some of my stuff!
• Go Back--Back to the PowerMac 6100 Upgrade Page

I'm also selling off some of my stuff. See below for details.

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* This is a Yamaha OEM "white box" 4416S internal mechanism, built into a standard external drive casing by Computer411, and bundled with Toast 3.56 and EasyCD for Windows.
** I was a student at Stanford, who had a site license for the Mac OS
*** Reference releases are versions that can be installed by themselves, i.e. they don't need to be installed on top of a previous version. For updates, see my OS page.

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• Sur-Tech I've never actually used these guys, but they seem to stock some of the mysterious items that I can't seem to find anywhere else. For example, they have HPV cards and those dang SVideo-to-RCA adapters. If you buy from these guys, please email me and let me know if they're a good vendor.
• PC Liquidator I've received a recommendation for PC Liquidator, too. One reader picked up a few 6100's for $50 each, and he says that they also have other Macs and parts for sale.
• C'net's Shopper.com is an incredibly slick meta-catalog that can help you find the best price on a given item. Shopper.com will poll all the major online retailers and give you each retailer's price, shipping and state of origin (you don't pay sales tax on out-of-state orders). All you need is the name, part number, or manufacturer of the item. For example, the part number for Newer Technology's G3 upgrade card for the 6100 is "7MXPA6100" (from the web site). Searching shopper.com for this part number shows a best price of $260. I use this service any time I buy computer stuff, and I regularly save 20-40% off list price.

  Yahoo's shopping engine provides a comparable service, but I haven't found it to be as useful. It doesn't seem to cast as wide a net, and it doesn't allow you to sort the search results by price. In practice, I find that the best prices are listed on shopper.com.

• Another great resource is Sun Remarketing. Sun maintains a complete online catalog of all the original parts for the 6100 series or any other Mac. The catalog lists parts by their Apple part number, making it really easy to ensure that you're buying the right part.
  

  For service parts and replacement parts, Sun has this really great exploded view of the 6100, showing all the major components. (They probably took it out of an Apple service manual). They also have exploded views of other models in this directory. They also tell you whether they have the part in stock or not. I've not yet bought anything from Sun, but I use the online catalog all the time, and most of the part references in the table above are linked to Sun.

• Last, of course, are ebay.com and the other auction sites. These are great places to find old parts and service parts. Caveat emptor, as with any used parts sales, but I've generally had good luck transacting on ebay, and sometimes there's just no other way to find obscure stuff like HPV cards.

I just got an email from a guy who goes by the name Macrefstuff. He asked me to list him as a source of hard-to-find parts, and he did seem to have a few of those (e.g. PDS-adapters and the like). I've never transacted with him, but he has good ratings on ebay.

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• comp.sys.mac.system--Catch-all for Mac OS system questions and answers
• comp.sys.mac.comm--For networking and modem-related questions
• comp.sys.mac.graphics--For graphics and video-related questions
• comp.sys.mac.storage--For hard drive, removable media, CD, CD-R, CD-RW and related issues
• misc.forsale.computers.mac-specific.cards.video--For-sale forum specifically for graphics cards.

If you don't currently have access to Usenet (i.e. if you click on the above links and get errors like, "you have not been configured for reading Usenet newsgroups"), then check with your ISP and find out how to do this. You can also use web-based services like DejaNews. It's a little slower than a newsreader, but it also has a massive archive of stuff posted to the major newsgroups over the past years. Remarq is another web-based Usenet service, but I haven't used it yet.

Usenet is an invaluable source of information, interactive Q&A, and spirited debate. 90% of all the information on the 6100 Upgrade Page came directly or indirectly via Usenet.

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Prices are firm, and buyer pays shipping. I'll guarantee against DOA except, of course, for items described as "dead." All parts were recently in use in an actual PowerMac 6100. Email me at steven@kan.org to buy stuff. Include the ship-to Zip code so I can estimate shipping costs.

Items marked "SOLD" have been promised to previous buyers. In the event that the transactions fall through for some reason, these items will go back on sale. Items that have sold and shipped have been removed from the table.

I generally ship the day after a personal check clears, or the day after I receive a money order or PayPal payment. Sign up for PayPal now! Get a $5 bonus just for signing up, and get me a $5 referral bonus just for using my referral link!

Item	Description	Price
Dead Apple 300i 2x internal CD-ROM	Use it for parts?	$5
Dead 6100 motherboard	No ROM. Includes the SCSI ribbon cable	$10
AppleDesign Keyboard	Same as above but with function keys	$10

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Last updated: 3/22/00

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Document change history

1/27/00--Added info and sources for 128 MB SIMMs, plus section on my surplus parts for sale
9/19/00--Changed source for 64 MB SIMMs
10/23/00--Added Sur-Tech link
11/21/00--Added PC Liquidator link and removed my 6100 case from the "for sale" list