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    Powerbase replied to the thread 250MHz Tsunami Machines... or not.
    From what Im seeing and sort of remember, the 8600 came with a 250MHz 604ev on the low end of the scale. The fastest 604e Apple shipped...
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    Powerbase replied to the thread $52 on eBay.
    That's... strangely disappointing.
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    Powerbase replied to the thread $52 on eBay.
    You should do some benchmarks between the different drivers, Hawkeye versus Formac. I wonder if the Formac ones are more refined.
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    Powerbase replied to the thread $52 on eBay.
    I just wiggle around the mouse. My eyes do catch that moving insect. Like a cat. I think you can set up macOS to 'shake' the cursor...
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    Powerbase replied to the thread $52 on eBay.
    Yeah, cards that could output two different display were still professional I think at the time (usually had two GPUs on them). I...
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    Powerbase replied to the thread $52 on eBay.
    For those high resolutions it might be. I won't lie, though. As I've gotten older I sometimes 'lose' where the cursor is :(
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    Powerbase replied to the thread $52 on eBay.
    Yeah, it was very noticeably faster with 2d than the Rage II in my Powerbase at the time. I do remember using the Hawkeye control...
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    Powerbase replied to the thread $52 on eBay.
    Here's a picture of the box it came in, if you're interested. I had one at one time.
    • series2box.jpg
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    Powerbase replied to the thread Radeon 7000 Flashing Woes.
    Just as an aside, I've always wanted to find a Radeon 9100 pic card and try flashing that. You can never find the things though.
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    Powerbase replied to the thread Radeon 7000 Flashing Woes.
    I didn't even know there was a Mac-native way to flash them. I did mine back in the day, and the only way back then was the dos flasher...
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    Powerbase replied to the thread Radeon 7000 Flashing Woes.
    That 'Mac' Radeon was probably pulled from an Xserve.
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    Powerbase commented on davewongillies's profile post.
    No hydrogen peroxide required?
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    Powerbase reacted to davewongillies's status with Like Like.
    The result of putting the face plate in the Sun for two days, no hydrogen peroxide, just the Sun. Left: beforehand Right: afterwards
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    Powerbase reacted to demik's status with Like Like.
    Leaking prototypes :ninja:
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    CPU photos, eh?
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