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The first Mac with built in Fast ethernet was the bondi iMac followed by the B&W G3. The Beige G3s had a CTO choice.  The 10/100 NuBus cards showed up around 1995 and as all things NuBus suffered from high pricing.  :/

The grey marketers were selling new units meant for other markets in the US, they were identical to the US units except for power cables, manuals, and CDs. Generally the grey marketers supplied the US variants in addition. The big change in 1997 was the Apple (online) Store, so the catalog...

The trick with pricing is to look at the back of the magazine at the grey marketers, their pricing was the closest thing to street pricing. Here is a one from January 1992: One of the things that Jobs did upon his return was to kill off this avenue of sales as it was eating into Apple's...

Techni-chat aside, it is worth noting that the Quadra 700 was on sale for two years, so clearly the limitations of two NuBus slots did not stop customers from buying it. If someone wanted expansion they would have gone with the Q950 and that monster was on sale for over three years. 

Just checked my Lapis and it is a XILINX/TI Combo as you stated. 

I don't know if this is any help, but this is the adapter that shipped with the DayStar 601 card for Centris Macs.

Install the VideoVision Monitor extension to control the resolutions.

You might be talking about SuperMac SpigotPowerAV.   

I have not gotten to scanning the RVVS manuals yet, but they are in the queue. The manual does not have any hard specs outside of monitors/resolutions supported. I even dug up pix of my sealed box RVVS (stored away) and there was no mention of the display support features. Inside the manual I...

AAUI will be 10Mbps. I made a similar call on my Quadra 700 as the internal drive/NuBus interface will never be fast enough to get the most out of the AsanteFAST card, so no real loss.

This Spigot on paper did a lot for the 840AV... see the box says so, and we all know boxes never lie!  :p I know its mostly a gimmick of a product, but the 840AV was to my LC what a Ferrari was to a Honda, so its nice to have a period-perfect unit, but having said that I stuck in an...

This might help decipher some things, source is the Thunder IV manual.  

The 68000 was a cheap and effective solution used by apple on one of their Network cards as well(Model# 820-0417-C).   

Luckily the drivers have been floating online for a while, but I will scan the manuals and post them on the repository just in case bundled with disk images.

The SpigotProAV was an improvement on the Spigot PowerAV that offered better video capture at 24-bit. I wanted one of my 840AVs to be as authentic to the era as possible. For anything more serious, I got the VideoVision Studio to use. If I ever around to it.

DayStar actually was very close to Apple having designed the 601 PDS card that apple sold a version of. The whole MP line originated under DayStar before they fizzled out in the end unfortunately. Apple did pick up the MP slack in the 9600 line, but it was short-lived as the return of Jobs...

I have been fortunate to acquire some very awesome Radius/SuperMac cards this year. Here are some of the Thunders. First one is a new old stock SuperMac Thunder II GX 1600 - COMPLETE! Next up is a Radius Thunder IV GX 1600, the card to finish up my Radius System 100 dream. Followed by the...

:D  TRUTH!  That is an interesting card indeed, I wonder if it is an original design or a derivative based on an other card. 

DayStar supposedly had internal prototypes of the accelerators but the launch got delayed numerous times before the project was cancelled. Was it Apple who put the kibosh on it or was it the fact that the 060 upgrade did not substantially improve performance, we will never know. DayStar...

DayStar vaporware like their 68060 product, ideas that were promising but simply not feasible.