Compgeke
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Somehow I have insane luck, because I've picked up another Quad CPU Daystar. This one's a Quad 132! Here's a link to the first one: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?thr...f-pci-macs-daystar-millennium-quad-604.31811/
This machine is a Daystar Genesis MP. It's a Quad CPU Macintosh clone from 1995.
Basically it's a Powermac 9500 in a fancy case with a giant CPU board. The logic board is actually an Apple produced Tsunami board. Some ugly is starting to show here, though.
This machine has suffered a battery leak! That's a big shame. This machine isn't too common.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/t9Rol1l.jpg[/img]
Yuck.
But wait, hold up. What's that? Another board? Remember what I said earlier about this being basically a 9500? Yup!
I just happened to have a CPUless and broken case 9500 in storage. It's a great donor to fix the Daystar.
With a new board in, here's what we've got. Much better.
The video card it came with is an ATI Mach 64. Kind of a meh card, but whatever, it's a framebuffer.
It also has an ATTO Fibre Channel attachment card. I bet this was used for video or something and needed fast disks. Unfortunately it came without a hard drive so no idea for sure.
Currently I'm formatting a new drive for the machine. One of the drive blanks has a broken tab and wobbles around so I'll throw this cool drive caddy with SCSI ID indicator in. It also means I don't have to drag rails out of the other one
Ultimately I want to try and run BeOS on this one. The first has the board that's specifically noted in the BeOS readme to not be supported. Being as this has a literal 9500 Tsunami board, it should work I hope.
This machine is a Daystar Genesis MP. It's a Quad CPU Macintosh clone from 1995.
Basically it's a Powermac 9500 in a fancy case with a giant CPU board. The logic board is actually an Apple produced Tsunami board. Some ugly is starting to show here, though.
This machine has suffered a battery leak! That's a big shame. This machine isn't too common.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/t9Rol1l.jpg[/img]
Yuck.
But wait, hold up. What's that? Another board? Remember what I said earlier about this being basically a 9500? Yup!
I just happened to have a CPUless and broken case 9500 in storage. It's a great donor to fix the Daystar.
With a new board in, here's what we've got. Much better.
The video card it came with is an ATI Mach 64. Kind of a meh card, but whatever, it's a framebuffer.
It also has an ATTO Fibre Channel attachment card. I bet this was used for video or something and needed fast disks. Unfortunately it came without a hard drive so no idea for sure.
Currently I'm formatting a new drive for the machine. One of the drive blanks has a broken tab and wobbles around so I'll throw this cool drive caddy with SCSI ID indicator in. It also means I don't have to drag rails out of the other one
Ultimately I want to try and run BeOS on this one. The first has the board that's specifically noted in the BeOS readme to not be supported. Being as this has a literal 9500 Tsunami board, it should work I hope.