Franklinstein
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I bought an unknown-model 500-series PowerBook on eBay for about $10. I say it's an unknown model because the model number has been replaced with a PowerPC badge due to an upgrade. Unfortunately, UPS doesn't ship to my APO, so I had it routed to my mum and she should send it along shortly with some other eBay bits so that I may play with them all.
I've been curious lately since reading about early 68k/PPC cross machines (like the 52/6200-series), and have been wondering if anybody had any specs on how the 64-bit-bus 603 interfaces to the '040's 32-bit bus. Is it as atrocious as the 6200 series, or is it executed as well as the rest of the PowerBook 500 series? Just curious, mostly to see whether or not it was worth anything to upgrade one of those things or not.
The 1000-yen 7600/200 is in good shape. It works for the most part, but I think it may have bad RAM or something, as it likes to lock up. I took all but one DIMM out and it seems stable for the moment. I'll have to test the rest as soon as it's done low-level formatting the 4GB 2nd-gen Barracuda that I had to buy to replace the dead 2GB Fireball. I'm not terribly concerned about what's bad, as I have loads of replacement RAM and other stuff back home; I just care about the case (this is an Asia/AU-specific model, after all), and the processor to a lesser extent.
I've been curious lately since reading about early 68k/PPC cross machines (like the 52/6200-series), and have been wondering if anybody had any specs on how the 64-bit-bus 603 interfaces to the '040's 32-bit bus. Is it as atrocious as the 6200 series, or is it executed as well as the rest of the PowerBook 500 series? Just curious, mostly to see whether or not it was worth anything to upgrade one of those things or not.
The 1000-yen 7600/200 is in good shape. It works for the most part, but I think it may have bad RAM or something, as it likes to lock up. I took all but one DIMM out and it seems stable for the moment. I'll have to test the rest as soon as it's done low-level formatting the 4GB 2nd-gen Barracuda that I had to buy to replace the dead 2GB Fireball. I'm not terribly concerned about what's bad, as I have loads of replacement RAM and other stuff back home; I just care about the case (this is an Asia/AU-specific model, after all), and the processor to a lesser extent.