I found this forum from Low-End Mac where I had been searching for info on
Mac Quadra 650s. Forgive me for asking stupid questions, but I really am a
novice where Macs are concerned.
Several years ago one of my suppliers - a photo lab - liquidated their Macs
and bought new machines. I bought
Charles,
Welcome to the vintage Mac community. A couple of thoughts on your system:
1. With 1MB of video RAM, you’re at the max on the logic board. Your system
will support thousands of colors at that resolution and hundreds (256) at
1024x768.
2. The upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 should simply be a ma
KK6ISP
Yet another designated driver on the information super highway.
> On May 6, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Charles Hudson wrote:
>
> I've got some more RAM on order and a wireless interface so I can connect to
> the cable modem / wireless router. But I look at the bare slots inside the
> case and
There's a rather wide selection of video cards that were available for
the 650. Find out their capabilities and choose wisely. Usually the
aftermarket, e.g. Supermac, are actually stronger than most of the Apple
cards. Also, there may be the possbility of an accelerator card or a
cache card w
Thank you all for your replies and your suggestions.
The wireless interface is a Linksys and is external; it was recommended by
the Headgap Store. I picked one used (Amazon) for $23.
Didn't know OS 9 was compatible. Wikipedia says anything past 8.1 needs a
PPC proc.
So the CD is SCSI? I h
