Quadra 700 Appreciation - Stories - Got one?

[uniserver]

Obviously if you want to know about the Quadra 700 you can ask google, Google will show you what it finds:

There is info on:

- #1 hit, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Quadra_700

- #2 hit, EveryMac: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_quadra/specs/mac_quadra_700.html

- #3 hit, LowendMac: http://www.lowendmac.com/quadra/quadra-700.html

- #4 hit, AppleHistory: http://apple-history.com/700

Basically what i am getting at is this,

Is there some raw nitty gritty info on this machine?

Info you know about the Q700 that nobody else would know?

Originally when I set out to find and acquire the Quadra 700,

Here was my vague reasoning, please don't cringe.

- I saw it on jurassic park, it looked like a bad ass machine.

- I like how it's a Tower with one simple disk slot in the front.

- The Design language is awesome looking

- It was the first Quadra to include an AAUI Networking port.

After i received my Quadra 700,

Here are some more things i noticed/appreciated about it.

- The Program and Reset buttons on the front have a perfect feel when you press them

- Case is easy to open

- Its fast

- Using It, Truly feels like a bad ass professional grade machine,

- This thing always is reminding me of it's quality, Well built machine, must have received lot's of love from engineering.

Please add your thoughts and experiences with the Quadra 700.

 

[mcdermd]

And it has cool feets.

 

[uniserver]

i was lucky mine does have the feets

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

I made elevator shoe feets for all three of mine so they can be run while sitting on top of carpet without burning up!

 

[gobabushka]

O lord...feets.

 

[uniserver]

no interesting Quadra 700 stories or info Eh?

just feets ? :lol:

 

[markyb86]

They seem to have a feets feetish. :I

 

[uniserver]

this lady openly admits to it:



loves her mac and feet!

her profile on flicker, rated G

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22419713@N07/favorites/page32/?view=lg

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Eeeeeek!!!!!!!!!!! Smelly feet! 8-o

Mac feets!!!!! Yep, it's a longtime 68kMLA tradition from the earliest of days. :lol:

 

[uniserver]

http://www.powersupportusa.com/accessories/macbook/notebook-heels.html

 

[LCGuy]

MacBook heels? Meh - I like my Macs with FEETS!

 

[techknight]

Assuming the feets havent melted to molten rubber slime by now. the Duos have.

 

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[uniserver]

Has anyone on here owned a Quadra 700 since it was new?

Remember buying it, thinking, this will be the only computer ill ever need?

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

It's unlikely that anyone old enough to have bought a Quadra 700 new would ever think anything thing like that about any computer. We'd seen way too many changes in computing over such a short period of time by then to have had that kind of expectation. We'd already bought enough computers that didn't live up to the hoopla built up around new releases to be "waiting" for a rollout unless we were using something that was badly outdated and ready to upgrade.

Old time users I've known seem to be a breed apart, we don't actually expect computers to work, so we're happy when they do. Models weren't usually around long enough to become totally enamored with any particular one. Just in the history of the Mac, we saw four generations of processor architecture and more OS revisions in those first seven years than OSX has had in, what is it, 13 years now since its first release?

I'd like to hear what some of the older comrades have to say about my observations, I was between 30 and 40 when the Quadra 700 was released. How do you folks think about this subject and my take on it?

 

[MinerAl]

My first thought upon seeing one was "that's a cool looking IIci."

 

[uniserver]

Lastnight i tore down my Q700 / IIci / IIsi

i gave them a bath in the tub, used some comet cleanser and a scrubby.

there is a-lot of subtle differences between the Q700 and IIci.

- The the case and how the mainboard is held in is completely different

- The reset / program buttons are completely different

- The motherboard its completely different

- The only thing that seems to be the same is the design / mounting of the PSU and the HD/Floppy Tray

- Even the Brand of the PSU is different, AZTEC in the Q700, DELTA in the IIci

- Also the Q700 has AAUI and MIC in - IIci doesnt

After the good full case scrub, and air compressor dry, My Q700/IIsi/IIci are squeaky clean and like new again!