Re: Documentation for graphics cards

Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Well, I'd certainly welcome a full-features 68040 chip
(or two) -- that 
> is, with a built-in FPU.  The ones I have are 68LC040
and they are slow 
> as molasses.  Plus some extra RAM for a Performa 475
(80 ns, 72 pin 
> SIMM) could be helpful too.  Anyone? 

I definitely have some RAM of those specs, however the 475
only has a 
single slot and it will be hard to find anything larger than
16 MiB, 
giving you a total of only 20 MiB.  I know for a fact the
largest I have 
is 16 MiB.

I have a Q660AV in rough, but working (IIRC), condition.  I
was going to 
say I could pull its CPU for you (as long as it is socketed)
but maybe 
you'd rather have the whole box?  Then you'd have a higher
RAM ceiling too.

Where are you located, for purposes of shipping estimates?


Tim
-- 
Tim & Alethea
christtrek.org

On Aug 29, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Tim & Alethea Larson
wrote:

> Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>> Well, I'd certainly welcome a full-features 68040
chip (or two) --  
>> that is, with a built-in FPU.  The ones I have are
68LC040 and  
>> they are slow as molasses.  Plus some extra RAM for
a Performa 475  
>> (80 ns, 72 pin SIMM) could be helpful too.  Anyone?

>
> I definitely have some RAM of those specs, however the
475 only has  
> a single slot and it will be hard to find anything
larger than 16  
> MiB, giving you a total of only 20 MiB.  I know for a
fact the  
> largest I have is 16 MiB.

20 MB should be enough for what I want it to do, I suppose:
basically  
boot modified kernels and ensure they work.  The thing is it
 
currently has only 4 MB, so it is unusable.  For anything
"heavier",  
I already have another box, a Performa 630, which has 40MB
itself.   
(Why two?  They have different hardware, so trying changes
on  
multiple combinations is good 

BTW, another person has offered me to send RAM privately. 
I'll get  
back to you if he can't send it for whatever reason 

> I have a Q660AV in rough, but working (IIRC),
condition.  I was  
> going to say I could pull its CPU for you (as long as
it is  
> socketed) but maybe you'd rather have the whole box? 
Then you'd  
> have a higher RAM ceiling too.

> Where are you located, for purposes of shipping
estimates?

Spain.  Shipping anything big and heavy is not an option I
guess,  
plus I don't really have space here to keep more computers! 
But the  
CPU alone would be nice.

Thanks!

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84gmail.com>

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:

> Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> > Well, I'd certainly welcome a full-features 68040
chip (or two) -- that
> > is, with a built-in FPU.  The ones I have are
68LC040 and they are slow
> > as molasses.  Plus some extra RAM for a Performa
475 (80 ns, 72 pin
> > SIMM) could be helpful too.  Anyone? 
>
> I definitely have some RAM of those specs, however the
475 only has a
> single slot and it will be hard to find anything larger
than 16 MiB,
> giving you a total of only 20 MiB.  I know for a fact
the largest I have
> is 16 MiB.

My Perfroma 475 is running with a 64MB 72pin FPM SIMM very
happy. So a
total of 68MB is also ok. You just have to wait a little
longer while
powering up.  Some time
one can find such memory modules on ebay,
for example. But my LC III (68030) does not accept this
SIMMs. It only
accepts up to 32MB, IIRC.

Best regards,

Gheorghe Ardelean.

> I definitely have some RAM of those specs, however the
475 only has a
> single slot and it will be hard to find anything larger
than 16 MiB,
> giving you a total of only 20 MiB.  I know for a fact
the largest I have
> is 16 MiB.

My LC 475 and Quadra 605 both run great with a single 128MB
SIMM in each. 
I purchased many, many such SIMMs as surplus from HP Pentium
servers (I
forget the part number, but they are ECC FPM SIMMs I
believe, and I can
check if anyone is interested) for cheap from ebay a few
years ago. 
Tracking down the 512k VRAM chips to upgrade the onboard
video was
actually much harder.

What I'd really, really like to get my hands on however is
the Dayna
BlueStreak 100Base-T PDS ethernet card.  Never seen one in
real life, but
it is the only 100Base-T PDS ethernet card ever made.

- Nate