> The weird thing about this machine is that it says "PowerPC" right on the > front, but it's *NOT* a PPC. It's most definitely a 25Mhz 040'. I wonder > why that's there? Maybe the guy took the badge from another system, but I > don't think so. This was the original owner. I also wonder why this one is > called a "Quadra" when I know I used to have a 660AV that was a "Centris". > Wikipedia seems to imply it was just a marketing name change only. > However, the article also mentions that most of the Quadras don't have a > floppy with motorized eject. Well, this one does. Perhaps it was replaced. > I just wonder what's up with these little nuances.
I think there's a simple explanation: someone recycled the case from a 6100. You could easily pry the label from the old one off and glue on the new one. > My plan is to run A/UX on the Quadra 700 and MacOS 8.1 on the 660AV. Right > now I have everything in pieces. I'm waiting on another SCSI2SD to come to > be able to set them both up. Plus, I just got the one SCSI2SD and I'm in > the process of benchmarking it on several different OSs. I wish the US > vendor would sell the newer (v6) board, as it's supposed to support 10MB/s > synchronous (if your SD card can do it, and most can these days). All they > have on Ebay right now are the older 5.x based cards (which is like the > one I have now). I personally run A/UX on a Quadra 800 that I clockchipped to 40MHz. That runs it very, very nicely. It does have a PowerPC PDS card, btw, but the PDS card does not like the CPU being accelerated much past 38MHz. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Are you ready for de BIG FUN?? Yeah! -- Headmaster Kuno, "Ranma 1/2" -------
