[geeks] The infamous power mac :-)

[John Francini]

All the USB stuff on that computer has to be 3rd-party add-ons. 
Since the 7200 is a Beige Mac, it doesn't have stock USB ports; 
they've got to be on a PCI card.  The stock keyboard and rodent were 
ADB on that unit, and external USB storage was unheard of when it 
came out.

I suspect that the mouse (and likely keyboard as well) weren't active 
until the end of the boot sequwnce because that's when the drivers 
for those devices are getting loaded.

j


At 21:39 +0300 7/22/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>I am now sitting in front of the Power Mac I was not sure of what it was
>and there was a lot of speculation.
>
>It says on the front "Power Macintosh 7200/120"
>According to the Apple System profiler, it has a 120mHz PowerPC 601
>processor and 64m RAM.
>
>It also has an internal 1.19 gig hard drive, and a 9.41 gb external
>(USB) drive.
>It's running MacOS 9.1 and I am typing on a USB keyboard and using
>a USB mouse.
>
>I don't know about the keyboard, but the mouse was not active until it
>had completed booting.
>
>Geoff.
>
>
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