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Steven Knowles <slugdog@primus.com.au> wrote:

> Has anyone got any tips for how to speed things up on the 6100? I've changed
> it down from millions of colours to thousands, turned off a couple of
> unnecessary extensions, freed up lots of disk space. What more can I do?

Have you tried to install L2 cache ?
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In article <B464D0BE.D89%slugdog@primus.com.au>, Steven Knowles
<slugdog@primus.com.au> wrote:

> Has anyone got any tips for how to speed things up on the 6100? I've changed
> it down from millions of colours to thousands, turned off a couple of
> unnecessary extensions, freed up lots of disk space. What more can I do?

I'd really just recommend going back to System 7.6 on that machine.  8
and 9 will run on it, but they're going to be pretty slow.  If you
haven't already put a Level 2 Cache into the cache slot, that will help
speed a bit.

About the only other thing that's going to make any significant boost,
aside from downgrading the system, is to put an accelerator card into
it.  And with that nice iMac next to it, I wouldn't bother.  :-)

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Patrick McNally <p-mcnally@lapin.com> wrote:

> In article <B464D0BE.D89%slugdog@primus.com.au>, Steven Knowles
> <slugdog@primus.com.au> wrote:

> > Has anyone got any tips for how to speed things up on the 6100? I've changed
> > it down from millions of colours to thousands, turned off a couple of
> > unnecessary extensions, freed up lots of disk space. What more can I do?

> Install a reasonable OS for this computer. System 7.6.1 is the best choice.

> If you have to have OS9, why not consider a G3 upgrade.

I'm using 8.6 on my 6100 - it runs fast [faster than earlier systems]
and is stable.

Every system before 8.1 is a bad choice - it simply doesn't support
HFS+. And in general, I'll say: forget about what is said on the
software packet. I'm running 8.6 and Office 98 - without problems. In my
experience it's not the clock that's the bottlenect, it's the amount of
RAM available. 72 M + 256 L2 cache, 60 MHz and a 601 processor [+ 32 M
on my Apple DOS Compatibility Card, 486dx, 66 MHz].

I even think it runs faster on this 60 MHz computer than on my PowerBook
5300ce. 48M RAM and 127 MHz. 603e processor.
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Steven Knowles wrote:
> 
> I've upgraded my 6100/60AV to an iMac SE, and thought I'd network them which
> I've done.
> 
> One reason I upgraded is that the 6100 had become unbearably slow (even with
> 72Mb of RAM), plus little disk space left.
> 
> Getting the iMac on board, I was able to re-initialise the 6100 hard disk,
> and freshly instal it with System 9, expecting a drastic performance
> improvement. No such luck. It's slower than ever!
> 
> Has anyone got any tips for how to speed things up on the 6100? I've changed
> it down from millions of colours to thousands, turned off a couple of
> unnecessary extensions, freed up lots of disk space. What more can I do?
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
Those G3 upgrade boards from Newer Technologies and Sonnet are relly
worthwhile upgrades, I have installed three so far and they are truly 8 times
or so faster than a base 6100, they make it faster then my 200mghz 4400.

Speed doubler helps a little if you want to go with just software.

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In article <B464D0BE.D89%slugdog@primus.com.au>, Steven Knowles
<slugdog@primus.com.au> wrote:

> Has anyone got any tips for how to speed things up on the 6100? I've changed
> it down from millions of colours to thousands, turned off a couple of
> unnecessary extensions, freed up lots of disk space. What more can I do?

Install a reasonable OS for this computer. System 7.6.1 is the best choice.

If you have to have OS9, why not consider a G3 upgrade.

-- 
Patrick McNally
p-mcnally@lapin.com

Larry Anderson <foxnhare@jps.net> wrote:

> Those G3 upgrade boards from Newer Technologies and Sonnet are relly
> worthwhile upgrades, I have installed three so far and they are truly 8 times
> or so faster than a base 6100, they make it faster then my 200mghz 4400.

There are, however, two major drawbacks on the Newer Technologies Card:

1. They don't support the Apple DOS Compatibility Card.
2. Although they _do_ support the use of a screen card, no such card is
available today. Were Newer Technologies to manufacture such a card, the
accelerator would become a better card - remember that the built-in card
only supports 640*480 [67 MHz, thousands of colours] and 832*624 (75
MHz, 256 colours]. As the situation is today: I stick with my DOS card.

And on the Sonnet card: Unless the situation has changed, it doesn't
support either.
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Tlf. + fax: +45 43 73 00 15, mobil +45 28 23 09 92.
Homepage http://www.diku.dk/students/xerxes