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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
 Posted - 19 Dec 2001 : 09:32:38
Wahoo! I just sniped a FWB JackHammer for $52!The last one to come up on eBay went for more than double that price. Now I just need a 68-pin ribbon and a UW-SCSI drive...mmmmm...my IIfx is going to kick asthma... 666th poster to the
68K Macintosh Liberation Army Forums
Mod of the Mac II series Forums
Total 68K Macs liberated: 5 |
FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2001 : 21:45:01
Mmmm, FWB Jackhammer. I am so envious right now.*dreams of 68k heaven: accelerated nubus video cards with max VRAM, radius rockets, supermac spigots and FWB Jackhammers* 
FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
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Christophillis
Forums Squadron Commander
USA
688 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2001 : 14:53:04
Sorry if I offend anyone by saying this, but what is an FWB Jackhammer?68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Christophillis-
Privite First Class
Total 68k Macs Liberated: 4 |
cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2001 : 15:15:35
FWB's JackHammer was and is the single best SCSI host ever created for Nubus macs. It has onboard 50-pin and 68-pin SCSI ports as well as a 68-pin SCSI port on the back of the card, allowing a large number of drives to be connected to it (internal space allocations and adequate power supply notwithstanding). But what really makes it shine is raw, unadulterated speed. Back in the early 90's, an FWB Jackhammer could be configured with a 4-drive SCSI RAID array and pull an insane 36MB/sec transfer rate. Nothing came close to it back then. Even high-end servers from IBM, Sun and others couldn't touch the raw power of a JackHammered mac. w00t! 666th poster to the
68K Macintosh Liberation Army Forums
Mod of the Mac II series Forums
Total 68K Macs liberated: 5 |
FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2001 : 08:29:11
36mb/sec. Faster than my 400 MHz iMac DV Special Edition (ATA/33)  If I had a 68pin drive and a Jackhammer in my 650, i would probably look like this: FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 25 Dec 2001 : 05:05:06
Ah, dreams of greatness...~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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00013 Macs liberated. |
SCORE!!!
68k of the Week: kastegir's PowerBook 180.