Quadra 840AV

2003-08-10 Thread Ken
Picked one of these today and brought it home to play with (for $5.00, why not?!). Opened it up and found two hard drives, both unplugged. One has an Apple sticker, the other does not. The Apple drive is a Quantum ProDrive, 230MB. The other is a Seagate Lightning of unknown capacity. Plugged th

Re: Bringing a Quadra 630 back to life

2003-08-10 Thread David Bell
Hello yourself If you really want to go places, stick in a 5500/6500 logic board - this'll boot just fine and will allow the HFS+ format, without any power supply issues. Have already done this a few times and, using OS9 helper, an old 630 box will happily run 9.2.2 - it's then a 5500/6500 and

Re: A graphic Nubus card for word processing and photoshop

2003-08-10 Thread Powermac
- Original Message - From: "Sque" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't know about a photoshop plugin but the 660av takes 1mb of the 8mb > onboard for vram. > Probably better of with some kind of video card. It explains the lack > of speed for mine. Isnt the video ram part of the motherboar