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I had a 68881 math coprocessor board on my IIci that helped Excel finish matrix calculations in less than a tenth of the time it normally took. It also helped any program that used SANE (Standard Apple Numerics Environment) of which there were a few Remember accidentally brushing against the programmer's NMI or the reset button a lot then duct taping cardboard over it so it wouldn't reset unless I really wanted to one time fixed a crashing IIsi by just switching the ADB keyboard, guy didn't want to admit he spilled coffee in it which was causing it to transmit spurious keyboard entries IIci is gathering dust somewhere in a storage unit but still worked AFAIK Also had the 8-bit Radius PrecisionColor 8-24X, and a SuperMac 17" CRT which was all the style for playing A-10 Cuba in the day, its fun to drop a nuke while sitting on the tarmac and see how far the cockpit gets thrown Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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error1 posted:This thread is making me search for old powermacs on ebay and cl, dammit OP I didn't need this right now Also in storage, a UMAX C500e, ran Windows 95 under VirtualPC pretty good for an older machine.
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atomicthumbs posted:if i had the choice between a g4 with a 1.8 ghz sonnet upgrade, and a 1.something ghz dual G4 (whichever was the fastest one), which should i choose Maybe the 1.8 GHz because only the MP aware apps utilized the extra processor(s) in Mac OS 8/9 Only MP aware apps included Final Cut, After Effects, some media encoders, Cinema 4D could use the extra processor to any time savings if you don't use any of those apps then the extra processor isn't worth the $$$
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General Tofu posted:wow, there's an After Dark Goon Edition? fixed Last mumble before the thread dies, the RAD750 is a radiation hardened version of the same CPU in the old beige G3 Tower Mac and has been to a comet (Deep Impact,) landed on Mars (Curiosity Rover) and one is on it's way to Jupiter (Juno.) Not bad for a 200 MHz version of a chip. 
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