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I bought my PowerCenter 150 brand new from Power Computing in May of 1997. Three years later the machine is still serving me fairly well. There have been some problems including the following: Breakdown of floppy drive after inserting of defective floppy disc (gate did not open, disc played metal cover... ouch!); internal zip drive suffers from the infamous "click of death" syndrome and the CD ROM drive sometimes won't mount. Definitely not in very tip top shape, but I have made some workarounds to these problems. Among them is to use my Mac SE as a networked floppy drive, and I have also recently acquired an external 250 megabyte Zip Drive. Not to mention 2 other Macs now have external 100 zip drives too. Here is the current configuration of my PowerCenter 150 clone.
Power PC 604 chip @ 150 mhz (can be upgraded to faster processor) 40 mhz bus speed 2 gigabyte Seagate Hard Drive Built-in 12X Toshiba CD Rom drive Internal Iomega Zip drive (broken) 1.44mb high density floppy disk drive (broken) 32 MB Ram (expandable to 512 MB) Apple Macintosh System 8.1 (upgraded) Built in ethernet and local talk networking SCSI II port 3 PCI slot card positions VGA and standard Macintosh monitor port Power Computing 15" multimedia color monitor with built in stereo sound Bundled software that came with the computer included:
Apple Macintosh System 7.6 External Devices
250 MB Iomega Zip Drive Network
Apple Macintosh IIsi Links Mel's Original PowerCenter 150 essay
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