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bigsadhu
Junior Member
Cayman Island
462 Posts |
 Posted - 29 Sep 2002 : 04:56:53
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thelip
Full Member
USA
729 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2002 : 05:14:28
LOL!!! for $600 I think you could find an equivalent pci card than getting this thing!
How many pci slots did the 8100/80 have? 
Oh man, this was a good laugh to start my morning.
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2002 : 06:16:47
quote:
LOL!!! for $600 I think you could find an equivalent pci card than getting this thing!
How many pci slots did the 8100/80 have?
Oh man, this was a good laugh to start my morning.
Actually, In the days of the 3 slot b&w G3, the extra slots made a lot of sense and many cards had not yet made the transition to PCI.When it comes down to it, you're usually buying the software, not the interface card in many instances and the price of an expansion chassis is negligible in comparisn to even one high end media card/software bundle. Most Mac users don't realize why anyone would pay the high prices for those boxes brand new, some of the high end cards cost a lot more than the system they ran on when you think about it, I'll bet many still do!  jt  ™.
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catsdorule
Senior Member
Canada
1627 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2002 : 11:07:42
I thought at first that was a PCI on nubus adapter, man if I could get usb on my Q700!-Danny
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2002 : 21:20:25
wow... i have NO idea how I'd use 13 NuBus slots on a beige g3
I can't even use the 3 that are in my Quadra 840av...but... now that i Think of it..... :) If i Have a 9600 that has 6 free PCI slots (tell me if the vid card takes one of them)
and 6 of the first NuBus things, that's 12 NuBus slots, which means that I'll be adding 12 of those 12 slot things, so, in my 8 foot tall rack, instead of getting xServes, i'll have a PM9600 with 144 NuBus slots, which could, in theory hold 144 video cards, and the 9600's onboard video, for a grand total of 145 monitors that you can hook up now, i have NO IDEA why ANYONE would need more than 4 monitors, but oh well, a 9600 with 145 12" monitors is MUCH cooler than a dual 1.25GHz g4 with 2 GB ofRAM and 2 23" cinema displays anyway "uhh... which one was the menubar on again???" Official 68k videographer |
thelip
Full Member
USA
729 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2002 : 21:31:25
9600 had no onboard video, it came with the ixmicro twin turbo pci card, or, i think, an ati card, but i'm not sure of the latter.Trash, i won't argue about 3 years ago with the b&w or later and the box being worth it, but i'm talking about right now. Is it still worth 600? Couldn't 600 be better spent on more update technology (not that there is anything the matter with nubus cards... ) *carefully watches back*
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 30 Sep 2002 : 05:27:06
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Couldn't 600 be better spent on more update technology (not that there is anything the matter with nubus cards...
PCI cards would be better in some cases, but a single PCI DigiDesign card would have to cost more than $600 new, if you had even one in NuBus it might be worth it to pay more than that for a PCI->NuBus expansion setup.You're still not thinking in terms of vertical market card/software combos. My first SE/1/20/Radius16/CoPro came with vertical market software and a serial interface card to put in the console to run my graphics cutting plotter . It cost close to $10k back in the day and was one of the best tool investments I've ever made (the plotter system had cost considerably more than that). What I was buying was the interface card that acted as a dongle for the software, there are a LOT of high end vertical market packages that use NuBus cards and several like DigiDesign's that can use expansion boxes chock FULL of them! jt ™.
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Marchie
Chaplain
USA
911 Posts |
Posted - 30 Sep 2002 : 10:41:44
Consider the Q950 I bought, that had the 2 National Instruments data aquisition cards in them. the only reason they ended up in the pile I grabbed them from was because the PCI versions that worked in the newer Macs were much more capable out of the box with the addition of OS X, and thus the cost of replaceing them highly justified. The cards still work, and cost a few thousand each, originally. Think about audio and video editing. sure, a Quadra 950 has 5 NuBus slots... Well, if you need 2 monitors, you're down to 4... that leaves 2 for audio cards and 2 for video. I can think of many situations where one would want or need to capture more than that, as well as need more monitors. Those types of expansion chassis can be well justified. I'm sure that there are people bidding on things like that truly NEED it for production use, not just hobby activities. ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie
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