Another Retro-Active Conquest . . . IMS Twin Turbo 128!

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

. . . rises to the surface!

Here's all the new IRS Funded Goodies arranged on the MacCoffeeTable™ I've mentioned:

It's been so long since I acquired the PPC side of the MacCoffeeTable™ support system that I ASSuMEd it was an 8100. I went to nab its HPV Video Card to put into the Radius 81/110 along with the new Crescendo G3/HPV Adapter Cards and discovered it was an 8500! Not only that, the (unexamined) Video Card in it turned out not to be yet another boring NuBus Goodness conquest, but a PCI Card! Right away I stuck it in the QS2k, hooked it up to my trusty Radius PrecisionView 2150 and it worked at 640 x 480 using a Mac DB-15 -> 4 BNC cable.

So I found found the drivers, installed them and still got 640 x 480.

I dug through the Magic Boxen and hooked it up with an HD-15 -> 5 BNC cable and, voila, oodles and freakin' OODLES of pixels available at 24 bits! Including the magical 1080p @ 60Hz for the 22" HP LCD along with 1600 x 1200 @ 75Hz for, easy on the eyes, 21" CRT playtime!

It's an IMS Twin Turbo 128!

I think it's time to order Sonnet's SATA Card and research HPV VidCap capability. SATA will likely wind up a lot less expensive than hunting down a JackHammer and SCSI drives for the Radius 81/110/Crescendo G3/VideoVision Studio VidCap Rig.

No time to do the research now . . . so . . . will 8500/Crescendo G3/HPV/PCI/SATA performance relegate my NuBus PPC Clone fave to NuBus Playtime Redundancy? :?:

 

[MacJunky]

will 8500/Crescendo G3/HPV/PCI/SATA performance relegate my NuBus PPC Clone fave to NuBus Playtime Redundancy? :?:

Yes.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Thanks for the quick reply. I've been rethinking things, maybe I should get the 8100 HPV for the Radius 81/110 and play with the VideoVision Studio Card in my pet IIfx. A 1992 NuBus VidCap card probably belongs in the IIfx or an early Quadra. That way I'd have three generations of VidCap goodness to explore!

 

[IIfx]

My nearly stock IIfx did poorly with a VideoVision Studio card. There is just not enough bandwidth for it to capture video smoothly. (Only 1mb/s real to the hard disk) The machine has a "fast" Seagate 1gb drive and 16mb RAM too. Then again, if you have a fast SCSI controller and more RAM you could have a totally different experience. :beige:

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

My pet IIfx has the RAM maxed out already. Correction: it has 32MB . . . :-/

I've also been exploring possibilities for expanding it further, via RAMDisk in the PDS or New Memory Cards that'll utilize the "Parity Lines" as additional Bank Select lines. }

Dunno, there are several projects ahead of my pet in the Que! :-/

 

[classic]

Check out this IIFX:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320643892634&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

VERY COOL! 128 MB and a Rocket.!

I've got a Rocket from back in the day, Dunno if the 32 MB is still on it or has been moved elsewhere, the 68040 with the nice heat sink from the Rocket is in my Q605. The Proc is way more fun in a box that can run a newer OS than the 7.0.1 Tune-Up. Even so, I just tried to snipe a pair of Rockets with Daughter Cards Saturday evening, but two other snipers had deeper pockets, just three bids each.

I thought a !!fx with 3 Rockets, the SCSI-2 DC and the PhotoBooster DC with 32 MB on all 3 running under RocketShare along with the IIfx's '030 would have been way cool, but alas, they saved me some dinero! :

Here's a link to My Pet IIfx and some of the booty in the Box of NuBus Goodness!