Is this daystar card i found what i think it is? I didn’t think these existed. I think its brand new.
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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 ".
Well over a grand in GBP. I don't pay attention to the specifics once it gets that high.
Well, I can't read, ignore me@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.@shu82 If you find one inside a IIfx that looks kinda like the big Daystar, lemme know.
Some of you guys have been in this spot right?
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Yeah going through the first load now. How does one sell that many? VCF?
Where are you located, that may help with how to sell
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.
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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Where? Could you circle a trace that connects to a Nubus pin and we'll check if it really does and what it does.
Remember that for data to flow you'd need a huge number of connections.
I can see several traces that go between (and past) the Nubus pins, but I can't see any that connect, let alone the kind of numbers needed to connect to the 32 data pins, let alone address and control lines.
This was how I did it:
- Take pictures of the items you're selling, noting any major defects.
- Make a list of all said items.
- Decide on a price for the items (what you want to get, but keep in mind what you're willing to let it go for if push comes to shove.)
- How much work do you want to do? Do you want box and ship everything? Or do you want to just sell it locally? (when I shipped, I had the buyer pay for packaging by a shipper of their choice, that way it came with 100% insurance. I had 1 Mac CRT yoke break off during shipping, and the insurance claim was instant ... no back and forth, no hassle, since FedEx packaged it themselves.)
- Post said list & prices to appropriate forums (I posted to 68k MLA and VCF.)
- I prioritized and gave steep discounts to locals where I didn't have to ship, but that was just me. You may not mind shipping stuff.
- If you do decide to ship, it may help to collect orders & payments during the week, then pack & ship everything on the weekend so you don't have to make multiple trips to the post office.
- I prioritized and gave steep discounts to locals where I didn't have to ship, but that was just me. You may not mind shipping stuff.
- Sell what you can on forums.
- When the requests die off, post to local classifieds (Craigslist, Facebook, etc.)
- Finally, eBay.
If you decide to go the eBay route, it would be appreciated if you posted the eBay links in the Trade forum.
If you're shipping outside of a sale on eBay, I highly recommend the website Pirate Ship. You get bulk rates and commercial pricing (including some cheaper, but slower freight options if people don't mind waiting.) Will save you a LOT on shipping.
Thank you for the advice. I just did my second 24 hour day moving. I found the box with all the old processors neatly packed prior to upgrading. Their IT guy took pride in his work. I filled a 16 foot box truck full of powermacs and quadras I wrapped in carpet. I opened up one umax clone out of curiosity and there was a sonnet cache card upgrade like i have in my TAM and another tbd direct swap processor upgrade. Who does that? This guy loved his people and had a good budget. I like cheaper shipping options for the towers. I'll be selling sawtooths for $50 locally for the foreseeable future. I think at this point I might crash ebay the market for aftermarket 68k/PPC upgrades and high end graphics cards. I have the contact info for the guys at vcf southeast. I would prefer meeting more cool people than dumping on ebay. Maybe they could trade some auction donations for a table. I did not do this to make money and I did it for the adventure. But look out for my mega sale on the trading post.
