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shaktiman
Senior Member


United Kingdom
1226 Posts		 Posted - 06 Apr 2003 :  11:07:03
What speed is your Quadra(s), Centris(es)?

Me;

Quadra 650 33Mhz
Quadra 840av 40Mhz

How many, how large, how fast:- drives

Quadra 650;

500 meg
40 meg
cd rom 8x

Quadra 840av
4.23 gig
500 meg
cd rom 8x

External cd-r shared 8x read 4x write

shaktiman

Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive,3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1
, 12 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive
Performa400(asleepintheattick)
oldmacman
Full Member


USA
713 Posts		 Posted - 06 Apr 2003 :  13:53:29
Centris 610 20 MHz full 040
700 MB HD
68 MB RAM
2x Caddy CD-ROM

Quadra 700 25 MHz full 040
350 MB HD
20 MB RAM
4x Tray External CD-ROM

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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder


Australia
5830 Posts		 Posted - 06 Apr 2003 :  15:43:50
Quadra 700
25 Mhz full 68040
20 megs of RAM (soon to change i hope)
250 meg HD (soon to change i hope)
512k VRAM (soon to change)


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QuadraJets
Junior Member


USA
344 Posts		 Posted - 06 Apr 2003 :  18:59:20
model/proc speed/ram/hard drive

Quadra 700/25mhz '040/68/500 meg
Quadra 660av/25mhz '040/20/230 meg
Quadra 605/42mhz LC040/20/2 gig + 2 gig + 2 gig +500 meg
Quadra 840av/40mhz '040/128/2 gig
Quadra 800/66mhz 601 and 33mhz '040/72/230 meg

think that's all my quadras

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Jobf
Junior Member


United Kingdom
162 Posts		 Posted - 07 Apr 2003 :  02:58:59

LC475 68040 @ 33mhz
36mb
2.1gb Hdd
2x external Sony CD-ROM (caddy)

Check out the Norton 3 benchmarks I ran on it. It's faster than a stock Quadra 950!
http://jobf.kicks-ass.org/images/benchmark/

Also got a stock Performa 475.

And just arrived today, in a box beside my desk is my Centris 660av which is:

Centris 660av 68040 33mhz
68mb
2gb
2xCD-ROM

Can't wait to get home tonight and play with this baby! It'll be interesting to see the benchmark results and compare them to my LC475 also :)


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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms


USA
4679 Posts		 Posted - 13 Apr 2003 :  02:40:53
well it's not here with me anymore....

840AV/full 040 40 MHz 64 MB RAM, 500 MB HDD

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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder


Australia
5830 Posts		 Posted - 13 Apr 2003 :  03:28:25
quote:

well it's not here with me anymore....

840AV/full 040 40 MHz 64 MB RAM, 500 MB HDD

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I know. Rest in peace, 840AV.

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shaktiman
Senior Member


United Kingdom
1226 Posts		 Posted - 13 Apr 2003 :  11:53:23
You need an 840av cory, though I have a strange picture in my head of about 10,000 840av's lined up like in star wars when we see the empire's stormtroopers............................

shaktiman

Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive
os 8.1
128 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive
PPC7600/132, 4.23Gig & 500 Meg drives, 8X cd
os 8.6
Performa400(deadintheattick)
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder


Australia
5830 Posts		 Posted - 13 Apr 2003 :  16:09:28
quote:

You need an 840av cory, though I have a strange picture in my head of about 10,000 840av's lined up like in star wars when we see the empire's stormtroopers............................

who DOESN'T need an 840AV??????

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candyPunk
Full Member


USA
856 Posts		 Posted - 13 Apr 2003 :  16:13:09
Me! I've got one! I'm only just now starting to use it, and it is definitely living up to what I expected - it starts up faster than my iMac.

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II2II
Junior Member


Canada
115 Posts		 Posted - 17 Apr 2003 :  20:23:32
quote:

who DOESN'T need an 840AV??????

Anybody with a real computer.

I have two wind tunnels, uh, Quadra 950's. One has an old VAX hard drive, which makes it sound like a MiG in a wind tunnel.

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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms


USA
4679 Posts		 Posted - 18 Apr 2003 :  02:32:03
I know I need a Quad840

Funny thing... before It had died... I had named mine "EverLast"
I had the intention of buying all blank drive bezels and using an external CD-rom drive should that need ever arise... it was going to be my "NC" "Network Computer"

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Chinook
Starting Member


USA
21 Posts		 Posted - 18 Apr 2003 :  13:42:33
WorkGroup Server 95
33MHz O40 and 66Mhz PPC601
1, 2.1 GB Drive + 4, 520MB drives (5 drive kit)
Internal DAT drive and external 2x Reno CD ROM
64MB RAM 2MB VRAM

Quadra 650
33MHz O40
250 MB Drive
Internal 2x caddy CD ROM
40MB RAM 1MB VRAM

Quadra 660av
25MHz O40
500 MB Drive
Internal 2X caddy CD ROM
36 MB RAM 1MB VRAM

Quadra 605 (inside a different case)
25MHz O40
160MB Drive
Internal 2X Tray CD ROM
20MB RAM 512K VRAM
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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star


USA
1559 Posts		 Posted - 18 Apr 2003 :  19:12:50
I started a topic *exactly* like this in this section the day the 68kmla forums opened...but whatever

I'll just mention my pride and joy...

Quadra 650
33 MHz 68040
120 MB RAM (3 x 32 MB, 1 x 16 MB + 8 MB onboard)
2.1 GB HD
internal 4x CD-ROM
Power Mac 6100 DOS card wih 16 MB dedicated SIMM
Multiple Scan 15
8•24 video card (connected to Portrait display)


[not listed: another 650, Performa 631, 605, fried Q610, funked up C610, Performa 475, Centris 650]


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lightsurfer
Starting Member


Germany
18 Posts		 Posted - 01 Jun 2003 :  08:01:53
Mine one is:

840av
68040 40Mhz of course
1 meg Vram (but the second is just riding a train to me).
24 MB Ram (will be going to 64 when I install the new Vram, dont like to open him twice).
1 gig HD
8x (Wow!) CD-Rom
8.1

He is the Star in my unnecessary littly computer collection. A sleeping beauty, able to blame a NeXT, amazing, wonderful, extraordinary beautiful........

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Lightsurfer, private, at your command!

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shaktiman
Senior Member


United Kingdom
1226 Posts		 Posted - 01 Jun 2003 :  11:10:59
quote:

Funny thing... before It had died... I had named mine "EverLast"

Let this be a lesson, it's like, when I bought a pen, spent £5 & lost it within 2 weeks, now I'm using a found pen for the last 6 months!

quote:
I started a topic *exactly* like this in this section the day the 68kmla forums opened...but whatever

Complete bummer, this sort of thing does happen, I just got lucky that people saw my post & thought it interesting enough.

It's been good to have so many replies

shaktiman

Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive
os 8.1
128 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive
PPC7600/132, 4.23Gig & 500 Meg drives, 8X cd
os 8.6
Performa400(deadintheattick)
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Slomac636
Junior Member


USA
103 Posts		 Posted - 09 Jun 2003 :  21:08:35
My Quadra:

Quadra 660AV
25 Mhz '040
40 Mb Ram
1.5 Gb Hd
But, alas, no CD-Rom...yet

Price: $5.00

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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms


USA
4679 Posts		 Posted - 09 Jun 2003 :  23:04:02
the day I bought my 840av... I almost walked away with a 660av instead, but because of the lack of CDROM drive and somewhat (no offense) slower specs... I ponied up the extra cash for the 840av and BOY was that machine everything I wanted my other macs to be! it wasn't very loud, it was fast and reliable and it had AV junk!

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Citon X600
Junior Member


Canada
206 Posts		 Posted - 10 Jun 2003 :  15:35:02
Well I have my Quadra 840AV.

It has 32 RAM, plus a Quantum Trailblazer 700MB HD and a second HD of 250MB.

I believe I maxed out the VRAM, all the slots are full.

It's quite fast and very quiet. I can leave it on at night and it is fine noise wise. My PC can't always be left on. It's a noisy thing. I would have figured older they are noiser they are.

Hmm.

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bargepole
Starting Member


Canada
22 Posts		 Posted - 10 Jun 2003 :  19:14:52
Geez, looks like I've got the boss 68K machine around here.

C650
50 Mhz (Sonnet Quad Doubler)
132 Meg Ram
1 Meg VRAM
500 Meg HD int., 2x4 Gig HD ext.

My runner ups are:
IIci
68040 40 MHz (Daystar Turbo)
Radius PrecisionColor 24Xp
68 Meg RAM
500 Meg HD int., 2x4 Gig HD ext., 4x CDROM ext.

Q650
38 MHz (MicoMac Speedy accelerator)
136 Meg RAM
1 Meg VRAM
500 Meg HD int., 3x2 Gig HD ext.

All with Ethernet, of course. (The Q650 has 2 adapters.)

All 3 machines, along with my LC630 (68040, 36 Meg RAM, 2 Gig HD int, 2x CDROM int, 18 Gig HD ext, 4 Gig HD ext) share a keyboard, mouse and monitor through a 4 port "KVM" switch.

Read 'em and weep, boys : )
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Unknown_K
Full Member


USA
602 Posts		 Posted - 11 Jun 2003 :  11:04:17
quote:

Geez, looks like I've got the boss 68K machine around here.

C650
50 Mhz (Sonnet Quad Doubler)
132 Meg Ram
1 Meg VRAM
500 Meg HD int., 2x4 Gig HD ext.

My runner ups are:
IIci
68040 40 MHz (Daystar Turbo)
Radius PrecisionColor 24Xp
68 Meg RAM
500 Meg HD int., 2x4 Gig HD ext., 4x CDROM ext.

Q650
38 MHz (MicoMac Speedy accelerator)
136 Meg RAM
1 Meg VRAM
500 Meg HD int., 3x2 Gig HD ext.

All with Ethernet, of course. (The Q650 has 2 adapters.)

All 3 machines, along with my LC630 (68040, 36 Meg RAM, 2 Gig HD int, 2x CDROM int, 18 Gig HD ext, 4 Gig HD ext) share a keyboard, mouse and monitor through a 4 port "KVM" switch.

Read 'em and weep, boys : )

What do you think of the quad doublers? And what brand/where did you get your KVM switch?

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bargepole
Starting Member


Canada
22 Posts		 Posted - 11 Jun 2003 :  16:33:14
quote:

What do you think of the quad doublers? And what brand/where did you get your KVM switch?

The Quad Doubler does exactly as advertised. You pop out a Centris' 25 MHz CPU and pop the doubler daughter board into the CPU socket. The daughter board has a heat sinked CPU (to which I added a 486 CPU fan). I don't know whether the 68040 is rated at 50 MHz or is a handpicked 40 MHz unit that works at 50 MHz. The heat sink is bonded to the CPU housing. Benchmark tests confirmed the speed increase, which is far less dramatic for on board video.

The KVM switch is a 4 port Dr. Bott ADB Moniswitch available at Dr. Bott on line store at
http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?code=1102-MSU4

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Unknown_K
Full Member


USA
602 Posts		 Posted - 11 Jun 2003 :  17:10:46
$200 is kinda too expensive at the moment for the KVM.

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