Hi!
What adapter and chords are needed to connect my new Macbook air, M1 2020 to an old school Power Mac 6?
Separately, if interested, how can I connect this Powermac to wireless cable router for internet?
Ah! It's an iMac. I was looking in the PowerMac mini-towers section.
Looks like that model can use an Airport Extreme wireless card if it does not already have one (it was optional then). The AE card will support up to wireless "g" speeds which is not bad considering its age.
To see if it already has a wireless card, look in Applications or Utilities for "System Profiler" and launch it. In the left-hand Content pane is a major heading "Network," and under that is "Wi-FI." Click on that. If a card shows up on the main pane, you already have wireless.
Airport Extreme cards have been discontinued for years so you will be shopping for a used/pulled card.
No PowerMac can act as an external monitor for another Mac. Only a limited set of iMacs with Intel processor could do that.
Also, no 2020 Mac including the M1 models can make advantage of the now-deprecated Target Display Mode, even if you have a supported iMac. It is dead tech.
As for a wireless connection, we need to know what a "PowerMac 6" is. That is not standard Apple model nomenclature. To get the actual Apple description, you can entry the computer's serial number in this lookup page:
https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/
and it will return the sub-model. Post the sub-model but NOT the serial number.
The reason this is important is that PowerMacs were in production from 1994 to 2006; older models have no practical way to connect wirelessly. Newer models have different options.
Thank you! That's a bummer though.
This is the header that came up:1.0 GHz PowerPC 7445 (G4).
Model: M6498 (EMC 1956)
Using an old Power Mac 6 as a display for new Mac Air
