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[highlandcattle]

Nice quadra 700 for only 5.50 euro, only problem is picking it up (I don't own a car!)

I simply love that Quadra case that is why I bought it (also I don't own a 040 yet!)

 

[tmtomh]

Congrats!

The Quadra 700 is a terrific 68k machine.

 

[Bunsen]

How far away is it? Is public transport an option? If the owner was willing to box it up for you, could you get it using a trolley of some kind?

 

[highlandcattle]

It is a two hour train drive, but I live close to the station and he has decided to come to the station of his town. He has boxed it all up. But I'm going to put it all in a backpackers rucksack and take the screen in my hands. I don't mind the train drive, I'll take a book with me. But it is the worst winter (snow wise) since 1964 and Belgium railways are already unreliable even when it doesn't snow. I'll tell you my tale when I get back on tuesday :quadra:

 

[beachycove]

Here in Canada, we have been watching the weather-related havoc in Europe with a good deal of wonder and a fair bit of amusement. I dare say that the Russians are thinking much the same thing.

I was wondering whether or not one of those little grocery trolleys that women seem to use in Europe could help in your travels. — Or maybe a sled?

 

[highlandcattle]

You have to realize that almost never snows here. So to save costs machines and cars aren't equipped to handle freezing temperatures. In the past public transport was better equipped for cold temperatures, but these have been graduammy phased out thanks to cost-saving measures and the fact that it was rarely very cold .

 

[applefreak]

@ highlandcattle

you are living in ... ?

 

[highlandcattle]

Hi applefreak you are also from Belgium! I live in Antwerp.

I've got my quadra let me tell you the tale

Half of the trains to my destination were cancelled (no reason given) but that didn't stop I spent exactly four hours on the train, so that is exactly how the routeplanner predicted.

The people were friendly and help me to pack all the stuff. When I got home my arms were almost falling of but it was worth it. I now posses a cool machine for the princly sum of 5.5 euro (and 15 euro for the train).

It came with a Macintosh color display which fits nicely on top of my Performa 460, requires some retrobright however!

The Quadra 700 sadly doesn't have any expansions it is a basic system with 16 mb ram and a 160mb harddisc (one of those really fat ones !)

Cosmetically it is only yellowed but it is missing one of its feet xx( . Sound however is working flawlessly.

I want to install A/UX on it to learn unix but I can't find the files online. The torrent also seems inactive.

 

[Unknown_K]

People see snow and wonder what global warming is all about. Some places will turn into dry deserts, while other places will end up with more rain then usual and plenty of snow when they normally just get cold. All that extra evaporated water from the warmer oceans tends to drop snow in places that normally didn't have any so get used to it. If anything the SE US is getting nailed with snow that normally might have been dumped in the NE and europe is getting heat waves along with floods and snow. Some islands in the pacific are under water now, and maybe someday Greenland will be green again.

One thing nice about living in Ohio is with the great lakes we will never run out of drinking water like the south and western states are going to.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

A bit off topic, but such "climate changes" are cyclic on an almost pre-history to present scale. Many theorize that the "High Desert" Anasazi (sp?) civilizations developed during a "wet spell" and were forced to move down to the lower desert to morph into the Pueblos. Irrigation (which causes salt deposits in the irrigated fields) in past civilizations is theorized to have been the cause of deserts such as the Sahara. Carthage certainly didn't grow to become a major world power in a desert and probably would not have been founded in one.

But this is a topic for the lounge!

 

[Bunsen]

Congrats on getting it home. I'm amused that the whole setup cost you less than the train ticket

 

[applefreak]

The Quadra 700 sadly doesn't have any expansions it is a basic system with 16 mb ram and a 160mb harddisc

the Quadra 700 with 16 MBram and 160 MB HD is a nice, fast pro-computer, Motorola 68040, processor speed 25 MHz, system bus speed 25 MHz

quadra 700 * monitors RGB High-Res & two page * PDram (panasonic 625 MB Dram for backups)

1991, it was for years my computer to use CAD software (Archicad) until '96 it was replaced by a Umax Pulsar 604e processor 200MHz

a clone, not because i wanted a clone, but apple couldn't deliver the equivalent at all .....

the upgrade with a Apple Power Macintosh Upgrade Card (a PowerPC 601 based processor upgrade) kils the FPU coprocessor

 

[highlandcattle]

Heh, I've already upgraded it a bit. (1mb vram and 500mb hd) With system 7.6.1 I've also started to personalise the finder. (Not to much though don't want to waste ram)