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TiMacLover Senior Member USA 1282 Posts	Posted - 06 May 2002 : 17:08:11 I think that the Quadra 840AV and Powerbook 550 top out as best 68k's ever! What do you guys think? Jeremy "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd Covert Ops 68k Hacks General Macs Liberated:17 ENTER THROUGH THE GATES Edited by - TiMacLover on 09 May 2002 02:30:17
SpaceBoy Full Member USA 631 Posts	Posted - 06 May 2002 : 17:30:11 Weeeeell, I'll agree that the 840av is one bad mofo, but I'd have to say that, in terms of sheer brute size, the Quadra 950 takes the prize. I'd love to have a 840, but I'm darn happy with my beefy Q950. Just a thought. SpaceBoy AppleBASIC FOREVER! As of 4/8/02: TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PB 1400/133, "KayPro II" PB 180/33, "Osbourne 1" PMac 7100/G3-266, "DEC Rainbow" and "Altair 8800" Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" iMac Rev.A/333mHz, "Deep Blue" Newton 120, "PADD"
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 06 May 2002 : 17:41:39 quote: I think that the Quadra 840AV and Powerbook 550 top out as best 68k's ever! What do you guys think? Quadra 630, not the fastest, biggest or best in any category except general use mass storage, but hands down, the most versatile machine of the generation! they'll be in useful front line service for years to come as consumer grade entertainment hubs! no other 68k is still in general service! PowerBook 100, revolutionary archetype, every notebook computer on the planet, including the Ti's and Sony's VAIOs, are direct (form factor and SCSI/target disk mode) descendents of the BabyPB! IMHO, of course! jt ™. .
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 06 May 2002 : 18:08:21 I agree: the king of desktops is both the 950 and the 840AV (or the 100 MHz 68040 card! ) and the king of laptops is the 550c. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City
Marchie Chaplain USA 911 Posts	Posted - 06 May 2002 : 20:57:18 King of the Desktops is the Quadra 950 or the Quadra 630 maxed out. Imagine: Quadra 630, 64 MB of RAM (or more), Ethernet CS, DOS Compatibility card w/ 32MB of it's own RAM, TV Tuner or Apple Presentation or AV card. That's one hades of a computer. As for King (Queen) of the Laptops... I'd go with a Duo 280c w/ DuoDock 2. ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac - -Stick of Justice, with Explodeing CRT head -Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip ~~"We are all Mad here"~~
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 06 May 2002 : 21:10:15 quote: Imagine: Quadra 630, 64 MB of RAM (or more), Ethernet CS, DOS Compatibility card w/ 32MB of it's own RAM, TV Tuner or Apple Presentation or AV card. That's one hades of a computer. you forgot the 80 gig HDD! jt ™. .
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 04:16:45 quote: King of the Desktops is the Quadra 950 or the Quadra 630 maxed out. Imagine: Quadra 630, 64 MB of RAM (or more), Ethernet CS, DOS Compatibility card w/ 32MB of it's own RAM, TV Tuner or Apple Presentation or AV card. ...and VERY easily overclockable to 40Mhz :) I'd definitely include those that everyone else has - 840av/550c first, 950/630 next up. 550c first just cos it's... raaaaaare :D dana -- http://www.danamania.com/ naturally hosted on a Quadra 605 --
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 05:49:49 quote: quote: Imagine: Quadra 630, 64 MB of RAM (or more), Ethernet CS, DOS Compatibility card w/ 32MB of it's own RAM, TV Tuner or Apple Presentation or AV card. ...and VERY easily overclockable to 40Mhz :) COOL! and look at this: http://www.nccomputers.com/products/other.html http://www.nmt.edu/~armiller/news/kingston.txt put a Kingston 133 in a 40Mhz 630 and have a 160Mhz 486DX compatable! i wonder if a mac emulator would run on it? did/will any emulators run on a 486 under DOS/Win3.x? AV Macs are cool, but they've got way too many compatability issues for me after dealing with the Rocket's! but i'm thinking about hunting down some Stage Twos w/DSP Daughtercards and a SCSI 2 Daughtercard when i have a 950 to stuff with 'em! i'd like to benchmark a monster like that against Cinemo's 840AV minibeast! =8-} i kinda like the 270c cuz it's the only Duo with a copro, did any of the mongobooks have copros? jt ™. .
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 06:23:32 quote: quote: ...and VERY easily overclockable to 40Mhz :) COOL! and look at this: http://www.nccomputers.com/products/other.html http://www.nmt.edu/~armiller/news/kingston.txt put a Kingston 133 in a 40Mhz 630 and have a 160Mhz 486DX compatable! i wonder if a mac emulator would run on it? did/will any emulators run on a 486 under DOS/Win3.x? No idea there - owned a PC for under 2 months... n then passed it on. However, pulling all the more performance out of a 630... go for it :D quote: i kinda like the 270c cuz it's the only Duo with a copro, did any of the mongobooks have copros? If y'mean the 040's - the 550c did. eee it'd be nice. Though the screen's bigger but no more colours or resolution... When I looked inside the 540c, the CPU looked the same as in any Quadra... I didn't look to see if it were socketed. I don't know if I want to go pulling her to pieces quite THAT far again though! dana -- http://www.danamania.com/ naturally hosted on a Quadra 605 --
MacMoose Junior Member USA 176 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 06:45:22 quote: What 68k is king of 68ks? Hmmm...Right off the top of my head, I would have to say the Amiga 4000T, then the Atari TT. Throw in a Palm IIIx, and a Sega Genesis, and you've got some pretty decent 68k machines. Oh, did you mean 68k Macs? Well then, the Quadra 950, hands down! ------------------ MacMoose Benevolent Genius, 68k MLA Total 68K Macs liberated: 9 and counting ------------------
TiMacLover Senior Member USA 1282 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 15:36:36 Nice one, hehe! Jeremy "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd Covert Ops 68k Hacks General Macs Liberated:17 ENTER THROUGH THE GATES
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 18:28:14 I dunno about the 540 chip: I never got that deep into mine! ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 19:23:12 quote: quote: i kinda like the 270c cuz it's the only Duo with a copro, did any of the mongobooks have copros? If y'mean the 040's - the 550c did. eee it'd be nice. Though the screen's bigger but no more colours or resolution... anything bigger than a BabyPB or a Duo is a MongoBook! they're just TOO FREAKIN' BIG! they've finally gotten the Ti's down to a reasonable form factor. those mongobook billiard ball pointers were nuts! i wish they'd bring back the trackball, pads are even worse than billiard balls! imho, of course! jt ™. . Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 07 May 2002 19:24:03
Wonkothesane Full Member USA 506 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 19:35:22 No 68k laptop can beat a Duo 280c with a working type 3 battery, DuoDock II, or MiniDock. That is my ideal 68k machine. As for desktops, anything A/UX compatible with a decent ram limit is cool, like a 950 or a IIfx. Wonko The Sane Engineer-in-training 3 Macs Liberated "You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool."- Wonko The Sane
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 19:52:24 Remind me again: will a IIcx run A/UX? ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 20:06:07 quote: Remind me again: will a IIcx run A/UX? ta-dah! from the FAQ's at: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aux-faq/ =================================================================== G.02) What's the minimum system I need (CPU, disk and RAM) to run A/UX? ------------------------------------------------------------------- A/UX 3.0 works on the MacII (with PMMU _or_ 68030 upgrade with FDHD ROM's installed), IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx, SE/30, IIsi (with 68882 chip) and the Quadra 700\|900\|950 computers. A/UX 3.0.1 (and later) adds support for the Q800 and Centris Machines (the Centrises _must_ have the real 68040 w/FPU - See Q&A #G.03). A/UX will run on the Quadra 610 and 650s (recall that A/UX requires the _real_ 68040 chip!) with a little bit of work. -- http://www.danamania.com/ naturally hosted on a Quadra 605 --
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 20:22:25 quote: quote: Remind me again: will a IIcx run A/UX? ta-dah! ta-dah? that took you almost fourteen minutes! didja jus' wake up or something sleepyhead? silly maniac! jt ™. .
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 20:29:28 That JUST qualified as a fast response. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 07 May 2002 : 23:52:27 quote: ta-dah! ta-dah? that took you almost fourteen minutes! didja jus' wake up or something sleepyhead? [/quote] I'm siiiiick!. I have a flu-type thing, an upset tum, and I just feel REALLY spaced. ok so 2 outta 3 is unusual but that's gotta count for 10 minutes at least... :D dana -- http://www.danamania.com/ naturally hosted on a Quadra 605 --
Rexzilla Junior Member 132 Posts	Posted - 09 May 2002 : 01:57:50 Oh somebody wants to start a war with this topic:)
TiMacLover Senior Member USA 1282 Posts	Posted - 09 May 2002 : 02:29:02 ~~Pulls out mass supply of flesh eating Compact Macs~~ I'm Ready Jeremy "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd Covert Ops 68k Hacks General Macs Liberated:18 ENTER THROUGH THE GATES Edited by - TiMacLover on 09 May 2002 02:29:37
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 10 May 2002 : 13:34:06 The best 68K ever? A dual-monitor turbo NeXT cube with the NeXTdimension board and the Nitro accelerator. Hands down. Now if only I could get my hands on one... Macs Liberated: SE (with SuperDrive), IIsi, Quadra 700, 6100, PB 5300, PowerMac 5400 PCs liberated from Windows: 3
shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 10 May 2002 : 13:50:42 IMHO The best 68k is probably one that didnt happen; Milan 060 running Magic(they work but to get any add ons seems to be nigh on impossible cos they use Milan pci or some such type thing and these were planned but not made I think:-/ My Quadra 840 av 86 meg ram 1.2 gig hard drive 500 meg hard drive CD rom caddy drive Would be the best but the Apple os is beyond me at the mo. To be blunt my Quadra takes too long to do anything and all I can say about the mac community is that it seems hold on a comparrioson occurs:- Pc community: they like to be patronised and duped into buying tons of worthless gubbins Apple community: as long as it is pretty it is ok, but prehiperals built to last. Atari community: SH*T as far as hardware is concerned but you switch the thing on and it has the os built in and the os actually helps you to organise your computer wtf the os does on pc or mac I have no idea it seems the most important thing is to be able to put a pretty pic on the screen. Apologies for profanities but Tos 2.06 is the most usefull os I have ever used and I use it to manage windows(emulating an Atari using Gemulator) I actually use Tos 2.06 for organising, deleting, dearchiving. now is Gemulator a 68k? my Atari stfm, because:- My son puts it on & plays Spot the dog fuzzy felt type game, Thomas The Tank, and cos you get accessories which are mega(not pc or mac accessories) you boot up and to play the game or use the calculator you go to top right desktop menu. It is just so bloody simple to use. MagicMac I am hoping will be a hybrid of Tos & apple os's Amigas:-( nil point shaktiman

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