Tech projects of Hannah A. Patellis

Power Macintosh 5500/225

Status + specifications

Status: Sold

• RAM: 128MB
• Disk: 4GB CF-to-IDE
• CD-ROM drive
• Floppy drive (SuperDrive)
• Add-ons:
• A/V capture/input card
• RCA/S-Video output card
• 10BASE-T Apple EtherNet CS II Twisted-Pair card

Resources

• "Apple Service Source: Power Macintosh/Performa 5000 Series": Service manual
• Old Crap Vintage Computing entry
• Capacitors list: This document was made by OldCrap.org, however the link here is self-hosted for preservation

Software I was running

• Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition
• After Dark 4 Deluxe
• Adobe Illustrator 8
• Adobe Photoshop 5
• Macstodon: A basic Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS created by @smallsco@oldbytes.space
• Wikipedia Reader for classic Mac OS
• BBEdit 5.0.1
• StuffIt Deluxe 5.5.1: An absolute must-have on classic Mac OS

Upgrades I had made

• CF-to-IDE
• LILIWELL 4GB industrial CompactFlash card
• Ximimark CompactFlash-to-40 pin IDE adapter module
• 40 pin IDE male-to-male adapter
• 4 pin male Molex-to-4 pin female FDD power cable
• 2 x 64MB FPM 5V 2K Buffered DIMM