Essentially a Power Mac 7200 repackaged in Apple’s mini-tower case, the 8200 came in 100 and 120 MHz versions. Because the CPU is not on a daughter card, the only upgrade is replacing the motherboard with one from a Power Mac 8500 and adding a daughter card.

As with the 7200, increasing VRAM to 2 or 4 MB will improve performance, as will adding a level 2 cache.

Overall, it was pretty good computer, but we call it a Compromised Mac due to poor implementation of the promised upgrade path. It wasn’t until late 2000 that Sonnet managed to create an accelerator for this computer.

Specs (via Low End Mac)

• Cpu: 100 or 120 MHz PPC 601
• Bus: 40 MHz
• Ram: 8 MB or 16 MB, expandable to 256 MB using 70ns 168-pin DIMMs (8 sockets), Apple notes “128 MB DIMMs can be used, but have not been tested” – this would bring total RAM to 512 MB.
• Rom: 4 MB
• L2 Cache: optional on 8200/100, 256 KB on 8200/120, supports 256 KB to 1 MB
• Video: supports resolutions to 1152 x 870 (to 1280 x 1024 with 2 MB or more VRAM)
• Vram: 1 MB, expandable to 4 MB
• Gestalt Id: 108
• Upgrade Path: CPU daughter card
• Adb: 1 port for keyboard and mouse
• Scsi: single SCSI-1 (5 MBps) bus
• Serial: 2 DIN-8 GeoPorts on back of computer
• Ethernet: AAUI and 10Base-T connectors on back of computer
• Pram Battery: 3.6V half-AA
• Weight: 25.0 lb
• Cd-Rom: 4x, possibly 8x on 8200/120
• Pci Slots: 3
• Power Supply: 150W
• Height: 14.0 in
• Width: 7.7 in
• Depth: 15.75 in
• See: Online resources and links for the Power Mac 8200