lastmile77
Well-known member
In approximately 10 years of collecting Macs I've never even seen a Workgroup Server 9150 in person. I saw two on craigslist last night and picked them up today! I haven't powered them on yet but they look good other than some dirt and yellowing on some of the plastics. They even have the keys with them. Apparently they came out of a school. They appear identical with CD drives in the second bay and nothing in the top. Doesn't look like much RAM and no Nubus cards.
I'll probably be selling at least one. I'm down to my Mac Pro, a PC, and an SGI and I keep telling myself I'm not going to build up a computer collection again. But like I said I'd never even seen one of these so I couldn't pass them up. If I do keep one its going to be a challenge to get it "retrobrighted" back to beige. These things are huge. Anyway if someone local to 19464 is interested send me a PM.
Everymac.com says they can take up to 520 MB of RAM (8 MB on logicboard + 8x 64 MB 72-pin SIMMS). Does anyone know if its possible to go higher with 128 MB SIMMS? Everymac tends to be right on upper RAM limits when other sites aren't.
How rare are the drive bezels - I'm guessing the ones from the 900, 950, and WGS 95 would fit. I'd like to either put in a second optical drive or move the existing drive up to the top slot. Wait, wait I said I wasn't going to start this again!!!
I think I read all the Nubus slots are on the same bus. Is that true? And I was hunting around for an expected max speed with a Nubus SCSI card. I remember some old info (from Radius I think) said the 840av either had the fastest SCSI transfer rates or at least was able to capture at the highest speed when using the VideoVision Studio board. Unlike the 9500/9600 this is a giant Mac that can actually hold a decent number of drives (5 behind the top external 5.25" bay). I know you could put drives in the bottom of the 9600 but blocking PCI slots doesn't count. But I figure one modern drive will saturate a Fast/Wide card.
I'll probably be selling at least one. I'm down to my Mac Pro, a PC, and an SGI and I keep telling myself I'm not going to build up a computer collection again. But like I said I'd never even seen one of these so I couldn't pass them up. If I do keep one its going to be a challenge to get it "retrobrighted" back to beige. These things are huge. Anyway if someone local to 19464 is interested send me a PM.
Everymac.com says they can take up to 520 MB of RAM (8 MB on logicboard + 8x 64 MB 72-pin SIMMS). Does anyone know if its possible to go higher with 128 MB SIMMS? Everymac tends to be right on upper RAM limits when other sites aren't.
How rare are the drive bezels - I'm guessing the ones from the 900, 950, and WGS 95 would fit. I'd like to either put in a second optical drive or move the existing drive up to the top slot. Wait, wait I said I wasn't going to start this again!!!
I think I read all the Nubus slots are on the same bus. Is that true? And I was hunting around for an expected max speed with a Nubus SCSI card. I remember some old info (from Radius I think) said the 840av either had the fastest SCSI transfer rates or at least was able to capture at the highest speed when using the VideoVision Studio board. Unlike the 9500/9600 this is a giant Mac that can actually hold a decent number of drives (5 behind the top external 5.25" bay). I know you could put drives in the bottom of the 9600 but blocking PCI slots doesn't count. But I figure one modern drive will saturate a Fast/Wide card.