On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:04:26PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:12:11PM -0500, Joel Ewy wrote: > > I recently hauled a couple carloads of computer junk away from my old > > college, ranging from 68030 macs to Athlon 1700XP+ systems, plus WiFi > > gear and lots of other stuff. One of the things I received was a > > Centris 650, which is a 25MHz 68040. The CPU speed isn't all that > > great, but it does have 4 72-pin SIMM sockets and I was able to get it > > up to 136M, which is pretty good for a machine of this age. I have a 9G > > SCSI drive with a 50-pin connector. The guy from the college said they > > had lots of trouble with those 9G IBM drives, so I don't know if it's > > any good or not, but should be useful if it works. > > The extra RAM is good for builds. However, the SCSI performance on these > systems hasn't always been particularly good.
Not too bad either. Quickstep.nixsys.be (experimental autobuilder) is a Centris 650, too, and has the same amount of RAM (or was that 138M? Not sure). It's not the fastest machine out there for sure, but it's reasonable. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
