You are right, apart from obtaining a hard disk (IDE) for it, ditto a CD drive (SCSI!) and a floppy drive, you will also need sleds for all these. Alternatively, in the meantime, just to get the thing working, you could stuff the drives in their holes and secure them with blu-tak, sellotape and/or rolled-up wads of non-flammable padding, or whatever... and then get the sleds as and when you can, in the future...
I also have a Performa 630CD DOS Compatible, or did, as my parents have it now. Although considered a pretty duff machine or 'Road Apple' (one of the less well respected things Apple has produced), I like it a lot. Theoretically (I haven't attempted this yet, but intend to), you can swap the standard 68LC040 33 MHz processor (FPU-less) for a top-of-the-line full 68040 40 MHz CPU, and if you're handy with a soldering iron, move some resistors on the motherboard to increase the bus speed to 40MHz too. Attaching fans to the clocked chips (CPU and video) is recommended... You are only allowed one hard drive, not two (master/slave) as on most IDE machines, but the drive can be pretty large, as large as your OS will stand (some people use OS 8.1... I use 7.6.1, but it's fastest with 7.1... no OS below that will work, apparently)... many gigabytes, dunno how many is the limit. The more the merrier, since this machine has audio/video editing capabilities (see below). With the DOS Compatible, at least with mine, you have 2 RAM slots for the Mac side and one for the PC side. I believe the number of slots available on the Mac side is variable, depending on the origin and history of the machine (Quadra 630, Performa 630, LC 630, and whether or not CD version, and whether or not 'DOS Compatible')...i.e. on some 630s there is only one RAM slot on the Mac side, on others there are two... In mine I had two slots and so I put 16+32=48MB RAM on the Mac side (one of the two RAM slots can only take powers of two, i.e. 4, 16, 64... NOT 8 or 32... dunno why) but all 630s also have 4 MB built-in RAM, so that made 52MB total. With RAM Doubler (tripler) you can pretend that the total is 156MB RAM.... I did! On the DOS side, I personally had 16 MB... j-u-s-t enough to run Win95 successfully, but you really need 32 or 64 MB to run Win98SE (it's called DOS Compatible but the 486SX 66 MHz CPU (33 MHz bus speed) will run Win98)... I tried two different 32 MB SIMMs in the PC slot but they did not work, I think they were EDO... or perhaps dual-something... I believe that only single-something SIMMs work, and that FPM SIMMs are (much?) more likely to work than EDO SIMMs, at least for the larger sizes (32, 64, 128).... I think that no larger than 32 MB was officially supported by Apple on both the Mac and Win side, though there are stories of even 128MB SIMMs being used successfully (on the Mac or Win side, or both, I don't know). I'm not sure whether you can rev up the PC side, hardware-wise... I have not seen any info regarding clock-chipping or otherwise enhancing these 486SX 33MHz boards... It says DOS Compatible, but I managed to get Win 95 working without much problem. The most up-to-date PC Compatibility software, 2.1.something, is free (abandonware) off a non-Apple website. Apple themselves developed PC Compatibility s/ware up to version 1.65, then presumably sold it on to this company... Sorry, I really don't know much about SIMMs/DIMMs, dual- and single in-line packages, etc... dunno what all the terms mean... It seems you have to master this to confidently buy memory for this machine at the larger SIMM sizes, unless you don't mind yr purchases not working (stick 'em in a Windows box?) Ideally, you want to be able to return the RAM if it doesn't work, given that it seems a bit finickety... The PC side uses the Mac's monitor, serial ports (modem / printer / webcam, etc.), and can access all available disks, local and remote I believe (via Mac's Ethernet card) etc., making for a highly compact 2-system machine... if you have a large enough hard disk, you can set up various 'hard disks' (hard files) to run different Windows systems ( I had Arabic Win 3.11 on one, Win 95 on another, DOS 6.22 on another)... It has a highly modular and easy-to-work-on design... the motherboard just slides in and out, ditto the hard disk, floppy disk and CD drive all slide in and out on trays... once you have trays. The CD drive is SCSI, the original Apple-branded drive was 1x, but you can replace it with whatever you want, high-speed 24x CD burner etc.... I assume. I still have the original 1x, haven't got round to finding a replacement yet... Apparently, the _external_ SCSI port (bus) is considered one of the weakest spots, it uses some old kind of SCSI hardware/architecture (i.e. slower) that had been upgraded in all other Macs of its generation... apparently one of its most disappointing features... so an external scanner connected via SCSI port might not be as wicked fast as one wld hope... still, I'm not complaining... it seems faster than a IIci, etc It has a so-called Comm Slot, which takes an ancient internal Apple modem card, but is much better off containing an Apple Ethernet CS card (Comm Slot I [CS]). Apparently the DOS board plugs into the original 630's board via its CPU socket, and blocks the LC PDS slot on the original board, so the DOS Compatible version of the 630 does not have that option open, but there is still a special video/TV card slot, which is apparently not blocked, whereby you can add -- I am a bit hazy about this, not having been able to dabble in it yet -- a choice of ?three? types of card.... a TV card, or a video input/output card, or an MPEG card. Something like that.... basically a variety of multimedia cards. I'm a bit vague on all this, not having had the luck of coming across one of these cards in the flesh... the crucial thing is, I have read somewhere that the DOS board does not block this slot, allowing one to install one of these cards. Oh, it comes with built-in infra-red connectivity, but very basic, not file-sharing or anything like that, just changing music tracks on the CD player, using a remote control (Sony remotes often work, at least partially, if you do not have the original Apple remote), changing TV channels if you have a TV card, volume control, machine on/off, etc. It also has a joystick port at the back, plus 16MHz sound in and out... normal microphone needed I believe, not special LocalTalk microphone, tho cld be wrong... My DOS board has built-in SoundBlaster sound capability and built-in networking too.... cool... There is a control panel in System 7.6.1 (Automatic On/Off) which allows you to schedule automatic boot up and boot down times, one-off or recurring... if you can master Apple's AppleScript language for controlling programmes, you can then set the Performa to do various boring tasks at night, defragmenting itself, backing itself up, updating web-sites, virus-checking itself.... In theory, anyway ;-) I'm nowhere near managing to get anything at all done via AppleScript, as yet... To find and extract that control panel, you have to browse the OS 7.6.1 install disks using a prog called TomeViewer... the c.p. is not installed by default... Ditto, to use the infra-red remote, you need to find (using TomeViewer) and install the IR control panel and extension, as far as I can remember it isn't installed by default... It is a relatively quiet machine too, which is a relief after IIci's, Classics, etc... So you can see, for a despised 'Road Apple', it's pretty versatile... Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Quadlist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:56 PM Subject: New Kid on the Block > I have a Performa 630CD DOS Compatible system. I need > to find out where/if I can get parts for so I can play > with it too. No CD, No Harddrive, No floppy drive, and > I think there is some kind of tray for them to mount. > I am not a Mac user, wanting to learn. Any help would > be great. -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
