Souping up Classic Macs: was Reading various format 5.25" floppies on a PC

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jun 18 14:40:01 2003

Fastest NUBUS video card I know of is the Radius Thunder IV 1600, good luck
finding one. Alot of that speed is from the built in DSP chips that
accelerate photoshop. I have the plain supermac thunder IV without the DSP
addon board and its not faster then the built in video on my Q950 for normal
video (the built in video doesnt use the nubus bus so its faster then just
about any addon board for normal video)

The fastest 68k upgrade to a nubus non PPC mac would be a Rocket 68040/40
(or maybe a 50) nubus card.

With either one of these options your transering data through the nubus slot
which reminds me of the old ISA slots on PC's (SLOW AS HELL)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason McBrien" <jbmcb_at_hotmail.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:46 PM
Subject: Souping up Classic Macs: was Reading various format 5.25" floppies
on a PC


> My friend and I are collaborating on juicing a IIci as high as it will go.
> Right now it has 128MB RAM, two SCSI disks (No floppy mod) a Daystar
100MHz
> PowerPC upgrade card, and a fast Radius video card. I'm working on a fast
> SCSI controller, and maybe a faster video card.
>
> What would be the fastest video card you could drop in a classic, NuBus
> based Mac? I've got a Radius 24MXtv that's about the old equivalent of a
ATI
> All-in-wonder, all singing and all dancing, but drivers are impossible to
> find.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre_at_floodgap.com>
> To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Reading various format 5.25" floppies on a PC
>
>
> > > I like the LC 475 for it's compactness while still having a
> > > powerful 040, and the 630 for it's extensibility. 56 MB of
> > > RAM in a 68k Mac is just to good to be true.
> >
> > Yes, but I have 128MB in my IIci :-))))
> >
> > --
> > ---------------------------------- personal:
> http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
> > Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA *
> ckaiser_at_floodgap.com
> > -- New political correctness is but old fascism [writ] large. - Dr Digby
> James
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