Under Performa

Connect a vintage Mac to a VGA monitor

My first encounter with the cheapskate design of the Performa 6200 came when I turned it on.

The power ‘button’ is just a partially cut out circle in the back of the case. When you push it, the plastic flexes just enough to nudge against the actual switch on the inside. Spoilt as I am, by the exquisite attention to detail of modern Mac designs, I didn’t initially realise that this wretched nubbin was actually the ‘on’ switch. And when my first disbelieving prod wasn’t firm enough to close the circuit, I almost wrote the machine off completely.

Blind testing