Compgeke
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One of those mythical machines you read about is the Daystar Genesis MP. Multiple 604s? How cool is that. rarely do they actually appear for sale though, and when they do often the boring single processor or maybe a dual. Never the Quad.
Well, a quad was the machine only in my dreams until recently. One morning I hit up Craigslist before work and seen a Daystar for sale. With the Quad CPU card. Oh shoot, I should email on that. A little back and forth later and for $100 I have myself a Daystar Millenium (Genesis MP after MacWorks bought Genesis) with a Quad 200 MHz 604 CPU card.
A short 40 mile drive later and I've got it!
So what makes this thing cool (other than the black case) is the CPU card. The CPU card has 4x 200 MHz 604e processors on it. It plugs into a standard (afaik) processor slot but needs some auxiliary power to work.
Once you get past that, it's more or less a Powermac 9500 in a super fancy case with a giant CPU card.
So what's it got hardware wise?
256 MB RAM (+ 2x 8 or something that was causing issues)
IX Micro Twin Turbo 3D 128 (Pro Rez version)
Adaptec 2940 Mac SCSI Card
500 MB Quantum HDD
4.5 GB Seagate HDD
4.3 GB Quantum HDD
9.1 GB Micropolis HDD
9.1 GB Micropolis HDD
Random beige CD-ROM
Mac OS 9.
This'll be a fun system to play around with, especially the SMP aware programs. Just need to get another mac video adapter so I'm not stuck trying to work 640x480 on a Color Plus 14".
Well, a quad was the machine only in my dreams until recently. One morning I hit up Craigslist before work and seen a Daystar for sale. With the Quad CPU card. Oh shoot, I should email on that. A little back and forth later and for $100 I have myself a Daystar Millenium (Genesis MP after MacWorks bought Genesis) with a Quad 200 MHz 604 CPU card.
A short 40 mile drive later and I've got it!
So what makes this thing cool (other than the black case) is the CPU card. The CPU card has 4x 200 MHz 604e processors on it. It plugs into a standard (afaik) processor slot but needs some auxiliary power to work.
Once you get past that, it's more or less a Powermac 9500 in a super fancy case with a giant CPU card.
So what's it got hardware wise?
256 MB RAM (+ 2x 8 or something that was causing issues)
IX Micro Twin Turbo 3D 128 (Pro Rez version)
Adaptec 2940 Mac SCSI Card
500 MB Quantum HDD
4.5 GB Seagate HDD
4.3 GB Quantum HDD
9.1 GB Micropolis HDD
9.1 GB Micropolis HDD
Random beige CD-ROM
Mac OS 9.
This'll be a fun system to play around with, especially the SMP aware programs. Just need to get another mac video adapter so I'm not stuck trying to work 640x480 on a Color Plus 14".
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