I need to get it upgraded now :-)

Performa 400

has;

4 meg ram
hd floppy
80 meg hard drive
512 meg vram!

I bought the Performa with a monitor & stylewriter II printer, for £36. I just made £30 from the printer so I got the Performa cheap enough!

I want for it, hmmm

two 4 meg 30 pin 100 ns simms.
PDS? graphics or ethernet? ethernet I think so as to facilitate networking.
cd rom.

upgrading for this machine I want to be cheap, so a 2x cdrom etc.

shaktiman

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"Windows(win-doze): A 32-bit extension to a 16-bit graphical shell of an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit processor by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition."

Either way...

maclover5's supersecret SuperLCII (or Performa 400) recipe

1. Install Macintosh LC475 logic board
2. Add 16 or 32 meg (preferably 32) 72 Pin SIMM
3. Install bigger hard drive (160 meg minimum)
4. Add external 4x CD ROM drive or any type of CD-R or CD-RW burner
5. Add internal LC PDS ethernet card
6. Install Mac OS 8.1

Just a little note about the RAM: Its been said that LCs from the LCIII (Performa 450) onwards need single sided SIMMs. In a few experiments down at the Shop, I've actually managed to fit double sided SIMMs in there....just. Sometime these holidays i'm gonna try the 32 megger (which is double-sided) in my LC630 in the 475 just to see how it goes...

Either way, good luck, and HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!

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erm nice idea about the lc 475, but

I need the upgrade process to be cheap [:-)]

shaktiman

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erm nice idea about the lc 475, but

I need the upgrade process to be cheap [:-)]

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4 meg ram
hd floppy
80 meg hard drive
512 meg vram!

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That vram's gotta give you some nice resolutions!

dana

Quadra 605 Obsessions

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That vram's gotta give you some nice resolutions!

dana

Quadra 605 Obsessions

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Quadra 840av, 128MB ram, 2MB vram, cd drive(caddy),1 caddy!:-)
1.2 gig drive, 4.23 gig drive
3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1 56k modem,
Stylewriter 1200, Umax 1220s scanner

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That vram's gotta give you some nice resolutions!

dana

Quadra 605 Obsessions

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Yeah like far out man,

but it seems odd that they only allowed 10 meg of ram, but I get loadsa vram.

@ the moment I can only get 256 colours, how do I make the Perfgorma recognise all that vram?

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It won't, that's 512kB of VRAM not 512MB!

I expect gamer rigs to hit 512MB of VRAM on high end graphics cards within the next four years tho! Have they hit 256 MB yet? If so, it might be as little as two years!

I laugh every time I see a recommendation for using 32-128 MB of VRAM! :rolleyes:

jt ™.
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C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF

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Just as a note - it's single-banked y'need... and single-banked are accessed by the one row select line - they can be single or double sided :D

dana

Quadra 605 Obsessions

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