Is this daystar card i found what i think it is? I didn’t think these existed. I think its brand new.

Despite having a NuBus connector, that is just for mechanical support I believe, because people oftentimes think it uses Nubus for something.
 
Well, they're a nightmare to find. Usually cost a small fortune.

That is an 80MHz 601, with onboard RAM. They combine host RAM with the extra RAM, so you can add like, at least 384MB of RAM to a Quadra 950, if not more.

Should be pretty fast because of the onboard RAM.
I bought "everything with a cord or goes in something with a cord" from a closed down newspaper. There is way more...Mac iis, quadras, powermacs all the way to intel imacs. They upgraded everything along the way. Its kinda overwhelming. I have to rent more vans. I think i hit the mother lode What is a "small fortune ".
 
@shu82 If you find one inside a IIfx that looks kinda like the big Daystar, lemme know. :)
No IIfx so far. But the IT guy back then probably had his own daystar and sonnet reps. He upgraded... Everything. I never thought I would say this but Im in way over my head. I'll spend the next few weeks inventorying. I did not mean to buy a newspaper but it kinda happened and I need to hide enough macs and accessories to fill a semi truck from my wife and put the money back in my account.

Some of you guys have been in this spot right?
 
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@shu82 Yes. A number of years ago I was asked to temporarily house a few hundred Macs in my garage. Refurbished and sold a couple dozen of them. It was pretty overwhelming. Ended up selling the rest a giant lot.
 
Despite having a NuBus connector, that is just for mechanical support I believe, because people oftentimes think it uses Nubus for something.
There are lines from the card going to the Nubus pins so it is doing something.

Considering the RAM works even when the PPC isn't being used some of that must go over the Nubus slot. I don't remember is the cache works without the PPC enabled.
 
@shu82 Yes. A number of years ago I was asked to temporarily house a few hundred Macs in my garage. Refurbished and sold a couple dozen of them. It was pretty overwhelming. Ended up selling the rest a giant lot.
I remember! It's amazing that it was almost 12 years ago! My how time flies!

I still have a bunch of SE/30 and Fat Mac parts floating around from back then.

I managed to sell maybe one or two as I recall, and I've been sitting on the rest.

And then I had to I move it, at least twice, and now it's cluttering up a storage unit.

I really don't want it anymore, so if anyone's interested, let me know! I've got power supplies and analog boards, cases, inner metal frames, and even a CRT or two.

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