Mint Quadra 800

[System7]

It Came with all the original stuff! The box, the quadra 800, and the manuals, wires etc. It has the 1gb Apple Seagate drive from the factory, and it is LOUD. It has 52mb of ram and an AudioMedia II Card in Slot II. Also has a caddy CD ROM and came with the Apple CDi Manual, and CD Sampler. Also a System 7.5 Install kit came with it, and a 7.5.5 Update CD from apple. Also a localtalk cable and 2 AAUI Adapters came along with it (Non Apple, Falaron.)The Cases plastic is not brittle, and seems good. It is impossibly hard to put the case back on tho!

I will post pictures soon.

 

[System7]

Well it cost 1700$ in 1993 according to its price sticker. Wow.


Is the Photo Set that has photos.

 

[Unknown_K]

Nice machines, I have 2. Any music software installed for the Audiomedia card? Do you have original software for that audio card (didn't notice any in the pictures)?

 

[System7]

Yes, it was preloaded on the hard disk. Sound Designer II. Also I noticed the internal video isnt wonderful, only doing up to thousands of colors, even tho I put more VRAM in. I guess I should get a nubus card. Radius one a good choice?

 

[Unknown_K]

You can bump up internal video to 1.5MB I think.

Any decent Supermac, Rasterops, or Radius card will do as long as it has 3MB or more RAM (if you like 24 bit color at 1024x768).

 

[beachycove]

The video system on the Q800 was intentionally hobbled so as to cut costs/ give the edge to the more expensive Q950 & 840av.

In other words, it's a feature!

 

[System7]

And yet on the computer chronicalls episode "The New Macs" in 1993 apple execs advertise the video system! Go Figure! Well, the rest of the machine is very fast like they said. SCSI, RAM Access (Interleved )and Networking are all pleasantly speedy.

 

[Unknown_K]

The 840av was better because of the A/V functions plus optional 2MB VRAM. The 950 had an NTSC ability I think, plus 24bit with 2MB VRAM (1MB built in).

Mostly the 800 was crippled by only allowing 1.0MB RAM so you don't get 24bit at higher resolutions.

I stated 1.5MB VRAM for the 800 but I guess it was only 1MB? I know it had 2 VRAM slots while the other models had 4.

 

[System7]

Well the 800 has a faster bus than the 950, so I guess it depends on the features you want.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

Well the 800 has a faster bus than the 950, so I guess it depends on the features you want.

That might be especially noticeable with a CPU upgrade. The system bus is often a main bottleneck with fast CPU upgrades.

My 6100 with Sonnet Crescendo G3/233 certainly didn't perform like a bondi blue iMac and I think the bus speed was primarily to blame.

 

[System7]

Apple targeted it more as a A/UX Number Cruncher than a multimedia machine, but they did brag about the CD ROM and Quicktime. However, CPU upgrades are kind of rare, so I will just enjoy the fast bus via NuBus. CPU and System bus are 33mhz, which is pretty speedy compared to most 68ks on a 20mhz or 25mhz Bus.

An issue is that the case vibrates. First time I ever saw a apple computer do that.

--EDIT--

I just noticed it has the designers signatures in the plastic of the case!

 

[beachycove]

Well the 800 has a faster bus than the 950, so I guess it depends on the features you want.

The bus runs at 33MHz in both the Q950 and the Q800, doesn't it? Where the 800 beats the 950 is in having faster and more readily upgraded ram.

I recently acquired a very nice 800 also, and like my 840av and its younger siblings, the 8100, 8500 and 9500, it is by nature a quiet machine (unlike, say, a Q630 and its siblings, in which the PS fan is annoyingly loud). This leads me to think that your vibrations must be due to a defective hard drive that could do with replacement. Alternatively, you might do well simply to check the drive sled screws in the first instance.

 

[Redjack]

How amazing! I got a Quadra 800 a few months back and it was just abysmal what I got (upside, it was free). The case was duct taped together NO A/V type ports, the Nubus slots were all empty so obviously the previous owner knew what the goodies were. I have hope that I can rehabilitate though!!

 

[Temetka]

Nice score!

I have always loved that case style.

/pets 8500.