Apple Power Macintosh 7220/200 (4400/200) (1997) Full Tour and Disassembly

[@douro20]

Power Computing was probably their most serious competitor; they built workstation-class Mac compatibles which often outperformed Apple's offering.

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Outstanding. One of Apple’s weirdest Macs.

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

I honestly LOVE this channel, and I hope that someday, we will get to see reviews of the G3 and G4 systems one day!

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

The feature option is for a option to allow 2 ide devices on a single bus, mostly this feature is turned of in those macs to save costs and to disable the advantage for the user to increase the storage.

[@Opry99er]

Where are you?!!!! We need more Macintosh videos!!! I've already watched all of your vids... need more. :)

[@sebv1086]

In case you're interested (after all this time) ethernet was standard on the 200MHz model but came on an expansion card that filled that Comm II slot on the riser. The 160MHz model was supplied with a riser that had three PCI slots.

[@nuncasinrespeto]

Great video. Very informative. Thank you!

[@barilochebarracuda846]

that was my first Mac back in 97, I got it because it was the cheapest model! 1 or 2GB HD! I learned design and graphic design on it. It was slow and the SCSI chain was a pain in the ass to work properly. But I loved it!

[@MariusNilsen]

There was a 160mhz version of this too

[@kbhasi]

If you can find one, you may be able to find a ATI Mach 64 or whatever that uses as a PCI graphics card. You might have to flash a Mac compatible firmware or you might be able to just put it in and use it.

[@thatguyontheright1]

+Kevin Bhasi Or you can put in a voodoo card (PC or Mac, either works if you have the extensions), and have some fun.

[@WeltInScherben]

I don't get what is supposed to be so bad about the 4400's. Is it the lack of plastic tabs that break off or is it the painted metal that does not yellow like crazy? Compared to most of the PC cases of this are the 4400 has a quite solid one.

[@sarym]

Thanks for doing these great videos!! :)

[@themacintoshmuseum]

Sary Mao You're welcome!

[@timcarabott6904]

Hi Jason, Not sure if you will see this because it's an old video. I recently purchased a 7200 Macintosh Performa from the USA and I reside in Australia. Watching your video I'm thinking you're in Australia too? My question is I accidentally blew the power supply of the 7200 by forgetting to move the voltage switch on the rear of the device. I tried purchasing a new power supply and changed the switch which also blew. It wasn't packed well........so my last effort was to purchase another 7200. Is it just a matter of switching over the red voltage switch to 230 on the power supply then I should be good to go? Given I've blown two power supplies I'm just nervous about stuffing up another computer, not to mention the expense....... Just can't work out why the second power supply would blow when it was set to the correct 230v on the rear. Thought maybe you could look at your computers and confirm they're all set to 230....Cheers.

[@PearComputingDevices]

I still own a PM 7600 with a g3 card. But we had a number of these. You could swap out the IDE drive for a Scsci using a cable but the SCSI port was still horribly limited. I think 20mb per second transfer rate or something like that. But BeOS wouldn't play too nice with the IDE controllers, partly why we had the machine to start with. But we had to get BeOS on to that machine somehow... But my PM 7600 was superior in every way imaginable. I remember the clone era, and I remember devs and Apple employees being scared the clone market would gut Apple's hardware business but when you look at the offerings at the time, that just doesn't hold water. Sure Apple was more expensive but there was a reason(s) why someone would buy a genuine Apple product over the clones. Only Daystar Digital really had anything worth considering. We had one of them monster quad core towers in our lab. It was quite impressive with the right software, hint:) But really when you looked at the limitations and the build quality, the clone business simply offered less. But it offered a way for buyers to get in to owning a MacOS compatible computer fairly cheap. Power Computing comes to mind on that. But that came at a cost to Apple and the 4400 was seen as their answer. I liked it because it forced Apple to become more competitive. This was a very dark era for Apple. If people today thinks that Apple is stingy and overpriced...... Yeah.

[@StevenSmyth]

The GIMO connector could be used for video mirroring for a compatible DOS card, and I believe the Orange Micro DOS card supported it.

[@NotHAL9000]

When will you upload the startup and demonstration of the power macintosh 7220/200 (4400/200)

[@kbhasi]

He said that the graphics doesn't work because of a mistake he did

[@NotHAL9000]

***** He did say that, but he also said he has another logic board for this system.

[@maysontorin559]

pro trick: you can watch movies at flixzone. Me and my gf have been using them for watching loads of movies lately.

[@jadielabdiel5921]

@Mayson Torin yea, I have been watching on Flixzone for months myself :D

[@crazycory25]

From what I can find, the GIMO slot has something to do with the DOS compatibility card, but I can't find much more than that unfortunately.

[@themacintoshmuseum]

Cory Farren Interesting - I have the DOS Compatible version of the 7220, and that slot is still not used!

[@crazycory25]

That is interesting. There is very little documentation that I could find to shed much more light, unfortunately. I do have a question. I'm looking at trying to procure an older PowerPC with DOS card if possible. What should I look for?

[@NotHAL9000]

Do you have a power macintosh 7100 or 8100.

[@emirerel6449]

I hope that you can repair this machine. I think that connector caused all of this problem. Did you try remove chip and clean it.

[@HikikomoriDev]

what size is the board? ATX?

[@dave4shmups]

Excellent video as always! What does "bank" refer to in this, and other computers?

[@1912RamblerFan01]

David Halligan Memory bank?

[@themacintoshmuseum]

1912RamblerFan01 Yes - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_bank

[@TheMrKocour]

Hi, witch type of ram this Mac have?

[@NotHAL9000]

Could you do a video on the power macintosh 7500...PLEASE.

[@themacintoshmuseum]

jake harvey I do have a 7500, so that model is now on my list...!

[@WedgeBob]

Yep... Seems that the 1990s were a time when Apple's CPUs kind of mimicked the style of IBM Compatible PCs of the time, rather than the AIO design that the original Macs seem to go for. It wasn't until the iMac that they went back to the original concept of how the Mac should have been.

[@theNWdigital]

Thank you for this video, I like the 7220 very much because it's easy to upgrade due standard components and for me, it's design is pleasant. But disassembly is because of the cheap sharp metal and old breaking plastic noses a real pain in the a**.

[@TechnologySpotlight]

I'm guessing the only reason it was the only 4000 series because maybe the 4000 series was known as the 'odd series' or 'cheap series.'

[@blooder81]

i have one(4400/200mhz) the previus owner upgrade the hdd to 10gb and samsung 52x cdrom drive works well (just need to had battery pack to it) powerpc 603ev 32mb ati vt2 2mb apple 10mbs ethernet cs II twisted-pair card comm slot using mac os 9.0.4 but going for 9.1

[@santospoland]

What ever happened to Jason?

[@konsolendoc]

hey cool channel ! And cool Video !

[@NotHAL9000]

Do you have a Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh?

[@themacintoshmuseum]

jake harvey Afraid not - I do not believe that they were ever sold new in Australia.

[@jeffffff]

RIP that ATi chip.

[@themacintoshmuseum]

PancakeWagon Indeed - but thankfully, I have another logic board for this system!

[@GPOTOM]

I had one of these, I remember it being very poorly put together compared to Apple's other models from the mid 90s. The 4400 may as well have said Dell or Compaq on the front, it was basically a Mac in a PC costume. Definitely a low point of Apple's history, before it was saved by Jobs & the iMac.

[@wclifton968gameplaystutorials]

looks like apple were copying gill bates' pcs but its a shame that jeve sobs stopped production of these...

[@Dex99SS]

If you'd have cleaned the corrosion off with rubbing alcohol prior to powering it up, you'd have been fine. Running the power shorted out just about every pin on that GPU... Not smart... You don't just hope that massive corrosion somehow isn't a super conductive problem while its spread over every single pin of an IC. Also, that power supply is an AT unit... not ATX. Pretty indicative of the era.

[@diablomix]

A clone Macintosh made by Apple. Gee I wonder why Apple was near death in 1997.

[@Halterung01]

Apple was always known for their revolutionary products, which really stood out of the crowd. When Steve Jobs was fired at Apple they didn't seem to have another guy at the company who could tell what people wanted and how to market it. They just produced more and more beige boxes. When Jobs returned to Apple they brought out the iMac G3, which was almost entirely Steve Jobs's idea (you can see what an All-In-One Mac without Jobs looks like if you look at the Performa 5200 (it's ugly)). He brought the company up again. As little as I like Steve Jobs, that is the one thing he did that deserves my admiration. You can see what crappy products Apple has brought out since he died in 2011. It is almost a shame he built up this "Apple-Status" for his company in retrospect. Okay, I'm starting to rant. bye bye.

[@stevebez2767]

It was about this time(even if there is an even of this video produced as linear polarity of a now nigh to the present) that Apple machine large framework of involved mainframe UNIX and Macintosh unrecalled resurfaces of many typical uses used as introductory passages with instances of George from the Beatles, Wakeman,Zappa,Bee Geees,etc were producers of that which was compartmented as green software and includes riddles of the yellow sub blue pink help we are being invaded boys,etc. The call at that cycle long ago was a quote aligned too Derek and Clive which caused major upheavals of mental gross disturbances mob lined synchronic all zombie followers of herd mass into assumes of all together S right now all backs too trees pest non loon craze of yell non words pointed direct too you for pest get laws? These rules of copywrite terms dis tempered too own control crazed psyco thinks live is be as country group work how's order? The machines call was : Get me out of this dos how's? E

[@incyphe]

To me, this was the ugliest beige Mac Apple ever produced. It's the pinncale of Apple cost cutting and the lowest point for Apple.

[@PJBearstein]

It is unnecessary and annoying to say 'basically.'

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

I honestly LOVE this channel, and I hope that someday, we will get to see reviews of the G3 and G4 systems one day!