Quadra 700

[Bolle]

My dad scored me a free quadra 700 last week from a company he works with.

Came around to turn it on this week and take a look inside. it got a 2GB IBM drive, an Asante Ethernet Nubus card with AUI and BNC, a Hermstedt Leonardo single channel ISDN card with Fax thingy attached and maxed VRAM.

best thing i found inside was this:

8-o

giving me a total of 68MB RAM in this little baby

all in all a pretty nice machine.

 

[tmtomh]

Whoa - never seen those before! I guess that's what a 16MB SIMM with low-density chips on it looks like.

Sounds like a fantastic Q700, totally maxed out. Congrats - that model is one of my favorite 68k Macs.

 

[~Coxy]

Hah! Never seen SIMMs like that before!

I though low-density SIMMs were usually taller, with two rows of 8 RAMs on the PCB.

 

[Unknown_K]

That is a Micron SIMM? I seen advertisements back in the Mac II/IIx era where Micron was making some crazy long SIMMs with low density (well cutting edge back then) chips on them.

 

[equill]

Double-sided, ie 32-chip? Yours seem to have been built on the-shortest-distance-between-two-points-is-a-straight-line principle. By the time of the Q950, many and various were the patterns, but the Q950's layout of four banks split into two columns caused some imaginative solutions for 16MB SIMMs. Some of mine chose reach-for-the-sky rather than reach-for-the-horizon formats, but still they were not completely rectangular, with little annexes off to the sides. The greatest difficulty lies in getting sets of four. Three SIMM cards are so-o-o un-useful together.

As an aside, are in-line pics now 'on', as opposed to their former 'off' status?

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[Green78II]

Wow, those are cool!!! Nice find!!!

 

[LCGuy]

That RAM sure looks interesting....it makes me wonder though...wouldn't there be an issue with weight distribution?