Apple Power Macintosh 6100/66

I have the main unit, mouse and keyboard.

type computer
country USA
year 1995
os Apple MacOS 7.1-9.0
cpu Power PC 601
speed 66 MHz
ram 8 MB
rom 4 MB
disk 1.44″ MB
hd 350 MB
graphic 512 x 384
colors 16000
sound yes
ports video HDI-45, ADB, SCSI DB-25, serial (2),
Ethernet, Mic, Sound out, Headphone

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The Apple Power Macintosh 6100/66 — The Faster Entry-Level PowerPC

The Power Macintosh 6100/66 was the faster configuration of Apple’s entry-level PowerPC desktop, running the PowerPC 601 processor at 66 MHz rather than 60 MHz. Released alongside the 6100/60 in March 1994, it offered a meaningful speed improvement for users who required the best available performance in the 6100’s pizza-box form factor. The 10% clock speed increase delivered a noticeable improvement in real-world performance for the processor-intensive creative applications that drove Mac sales.

As with all first-generation PowerPC Macs, the 6100/66 required a NuBus-to-PDS adapter for existing NuBus expansion cards and included the 68LC040 emulation chip for running legacy 68000 software. Despite these transitional compromises, the 6100/66 delivered substantially better real-world performance than the Quadra 610 it replaced — benchmarks showed it to be roughly twice as fast for native PowerPC applications. The 6100/66 represents an important historical artefact: one of the very first PowerPC Macintosh computers, marking the beginning of a processor architecture transition that would carry Apple through to 2006.