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Re: which mac to buy?



On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:41:17PM +0000, James P. Schmidt wrote:
> > Macintosh Quadra 700, 610
> 
> 68040s...  getting better... maybe if you only had $25 to spend...
thats more like $200..., the IIx would be $50.

> > Power Macintosh 8100/80 (this is powerpc?)
> > Power Macintosh 8100/100AV
> > Power Macintosh 9500/12
> 
> There we go, my first choices.  Fastest out of anything in the list;
> actually, it's strange how your list goes in order of increasing speed 
> and power.  (FYI, any Mac with 4 digits in the name is a PowerPC, i.e. not 
> 68k.)
Yup, thats PPC, Id really love to have a PPC, but that would not help the
debian/m68k project, would it? Also they would be twice as expensive as the
Quadras...
  
> Standard configs for the early PowerPCs were something like 16 meg ram, 500
> meg HD, single speed CD drive. You can use any "PC" monitor if you get a
> monitor adaptor - $30 or so if you shop around.
I just looked on ebay, ie Quadra 950, lots of RAM, large SCSI disk for $140,
so it seems the offer I got is a little expensive...
Ok, SCSI is not supported, neither ADB (does it have an IDE controller
then?) but then I could do some hacking agin :-)
Now who offered to buy as some macs?

Christian



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