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I have a 630cd.

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Actually, I have 2 Performas. One of them is a Performa 410, very rare Performa pizza box machine, and a 630CD. They're both very clean and still work.

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Performa 200, 400, 450, 475, 5200 CD, 5320CD, 5400 beige and the black one, 580CD, 630, 6320, 6400/200, 6400/20 with sonnet crescendo G3 400MHz, all working fine and in great condition
and more then one of each model (except of the 580, only one)

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I have a Performa 200. It is actually the first Mac I ever owned, but not the first one I ever used. I bought it third-hand from a co-worker about 10 years ago for $50.

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As my nick says I am Performa girl :)
The casing of 5200 has 5400 board inside :)

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That's a good way to improve the Performa-nce.
A board out of a 6500 performs a little bit better (millions of colours onscreen, speed up to 275 MHz, maybe 300).
Is it difficult to get Apple parts where you live?

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Well, there is one German song saying: we all live in America :D
So the parts for my iMacs and even Performa could be found on eBay or somewhere else on the internet.
The thing is, I did not continue to build up my Performa since I have new better Macs to use. Performa is there just like the monument of great past , but I do keep "her" working and I did change the pram battery ;)

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I have two 5200CD. One has that logic board problem (never replaced in warranty...), is a parts machine.
The other one... is my TV, as it has a TV tuner card, a 60 GB hard drive, Ethernet, maxed up RAM and all the goods. Really nice machine :).

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At least there are seven: a 450, two 475, 630 DOS Compatible, a 5200/75 and a 5300 (94MHz - believe it or not).
But what makes a Performa a Performa ?
There are a few of the 5xxx series, best of them is a black Performa 5400/180 G3 (Sonnet - 300 MHz) -
it is a Performa, but comes up as a PowerPC, too. This is the one to complete to seven.

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The DOS Compatible is a TV/AV, another 630 that came in a rotten state works now,
after the AC/DC down was changed to a working one.
Performa #8.

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A Performa 6116CD was my first computer, and I think it is in need of a new power supply.

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Again - this model may stand for the confusion about the names.
My 6100/66 is a PowerMac, but not a Performa.
It was hard to get an adaptor for the monitor, but it runs its 7.6.1 pretty fine.

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