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RCA Plugs!

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We figured that. But what ARE they for? Stereo Line in? Line out?

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I'll have to go & look @ the specs.

but, why? would be my question

the q850av is av but the q950 is q950a?

I am jealous cos y dont I have rca jacks?

If someone hacked together all the best 68k macs then it would be great.

shaktiman

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If someone hacked together all the best 68k macs then it would be great.

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Proud Liberator of over 25 Macintoshes!

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If someone hacked together all the best 68k macs then it would be great.

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They did... It's called the Quadra 840AV. (What does it not have that you could possibly want?)

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Compatability!

jt ™.
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF

My 840av is underpowered for what the machine is.

It is criminal to restrict the machine in the way that it is.

It should have more memory available.

It should have an 060 cpu.

It should have better audio input/output.

It should have more expansion(to increase the hieght to allow two more free bays would be good)

& as trash says a little more compatibility would be good.

perhaps allow more vram also.

a cache? a larger cache?

with the suitable power the 840av would be scared of no other machine, IMHO

shaktiman

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As I see it.........

My 840av is underpowered for what the machine is.

It is criminal to restrict the machine in the way that it is.

It should have more memory available.

It should have an 060 cpu.

It should have better audio input/output.

It should have more expansion(to increase the hieght to allow two more free bays would be good)

& as trash says a little more compatibility would be good.

perhaps allow more vram also.

a cache? a larger cache?

with the suitable power the 840av would be scared of no other machine, IMHO

shaktiman

Quadra 840av 128MB ram 2MB vram cd drive(caddy),1 caddy!:-)1.44 floppy drive,inject :-(1.2 gig drive
2 monitors 15" & 14" os 8.1 56k modem Stylewriter 1200 Zodiac speakers Umax 1220s scanner
3 year old son!

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Not to mention the ram amount - here, ram was around $50/meg when I got my A1200... at the time that was about $30US a meg - $1,000US for a 32mb simm!!

no wonder taking 4 of the things wasn't too much of a restriction at the time!

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Even Win***** 95 didn't REALLY require four of those MEGA SIMMS back in '95! I can't believe they're available new for under $10 today . . . gotta buy some!

jt ™.
Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball
C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF

I guess what I am saying is that the 840av was a machine "ahead of it's time"

& what are we saying?

Can we hear the 840av?

"I could have been a contender"?

The 840av is a good machine.

But it is underpowered for it's capabilities.

With a little work it could be made into a much better machine than it is.

Apple macs are different than other computers & thier most endearing legacy is that so many of them still survive & can still be put to good use.

Perhaps the worst thing about macs is the os.

Perhaps this is why:-

Atari ST kept same computer but the os goes from Tos 1.0 up to Tos 2.06. & if you get an ST use Tos 2.06 because it reached a pinnacle, a high state of useability.

Apple Mac changed computers alot & the os perhaps didn't have time to "settle down".

I want to use Tos 2.06

shaktiman

I don't really understand why you always say things like:
"But it is underpowered for it's capabilities. With a little work it could be made into a much better machine than it is."

The machine isn't underbowered for (1994?) when it came out, and it was made in to a better more powerful machine....the tower cased AV series....

The only thing we really can say Apple could have done back in 94' is include a processor upgradable PDS, or made an 875av with a 68060...

-mpm

Printers
Scanners
NuBus Cards
aftermarket Keyboards
Monitors
Media

and as a WHOLE, my Quadra 840av is a great system, and very fast in almost everything that i use it for.

My gripes:
can't use higher colors with video input
mine has one broken serial port
not onboard RCA stereo sound input
if anything, we should be thrashing this system for it's backplane layout, or for not having 6 serial ports,

but NOT for being not powerful enough, and NOT for not being expandable enough, if i understand, there is 128MB simms that *might* work in it, if you want more RAM, go ahead and try, in fact, try going all the way to 512 tell me how it goes

everyone tells me that i need more RAM for it, YOU try living with only 32MB on your iMac, no, i think that the quadra would be fine even if i downed to the 24MB that it had with i got it
.ME end rant

but otherwise, I'd LOVE to see an 060/75 quadra with RCA audio in, and 512MB of RAM, while we're at it, let's port ProDOS to a toaster

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I "think different"?

I certainly speak a different language.

Yeah I checked out the later av's now & I am drooling. But the Quadra 840av was/is the best & is underpowered. It promises so much & certainly was 10 years ahead of it's time (2004)?

They should build it again, now, today, this minute. It would be great!

bionic Quadra av

(lee magors in the bionic man)

"We have the power to re-build"

The Quadra's lovley.

shaktiman

an 840 is an 840, NOT an 860 or an 875 and i thin kthat my *840* will last me until at least 2004, hopefully, it'll last well after my graduation year of high school (2006)

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