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 have a spare Q900 mainboard complete with CPU that you can
have.

I also have several spare NuBus graphics cards that could
either be
sent somewhere or plugged into a system to test any
changes.

Robert Swindells

On Aug 29, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Robert Swindells 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 have a spare Q900 mainboard complete with CPU that
you can have.

If you'd be willing to ship the CPU alone, that'd be
excellent.  I  
don't have any use for the motherboard.

> I also have several spare NuBus graphics cards that
could either be
> sent somewhere or plugged into a system to test any
changes.

If the Performa 630 or 475 have a socket for those graphics
cards  
(I'll try to check later), they'd certainly be useful.

Cheers,

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

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Hello,

On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:52, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> On Aug 29, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Robert Swindells 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 have a spare Q900 mainboard complete with CPU
that you can have.
>
> If you'd be willing to ship the CPU alone, that'd be
excellent.  I 
> don't have any use for the motherboard.

Umm, if you can get a Quadra take it and run. Usually they
can take 
much more RAM than Performas, have more NuBus slots ( which
may run at 
a faster clock ) and so on. Also, you never know - maybe
you'll stumble 
over a dead Q900 tomorrow.
IIRC the Q9x0 mainboards have 16 SIMM slots which can take
up to 16MB 
each. Hard to find 36pin modules though but 4MB modules are
extremely 
common which would still give you 64MB.

have fun
Michael
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Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Robert Swindells wrote:
>> I also have several spare NuBus graphics cards that
could either be
>> sent somewhere or plugged into a system to test any
changes.
> 
> If the Performa 630 or 475 have a socket for those
graphics cards (I'll 
> try to check later), they'd certainly be useful.

I wish I'd known a couple months ago that someone was
working on this. 
We had a garage sale, after which I had to throw away a
bunch of 
"computer junk" that I wasn't actively using.  :( 
Much rather would 
have given those cards to someone that could use them!



Tim

-- 
Tim & Alethea
christtrek.org

On Aug 29, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> On Aug 29, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Robert Swindells 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 have a spare Q900 mainboard complete with CPU
that you can have.
>
> If you'd be willing to ship the CPU alone, that'd be
excellent.  I  
> don't have any use for the motherboard.

Well, or everything as Michael suggested.  If you don't want
to keep  
both and shipping the mobo is not expensive, I can take it
too.

>> I also have several spare NuBus graphics cards that
could either be
>> sent somewhere or plugged into a system to test any
changes.
>
> If the Performa 630 or 475 have a socket for those
graphics cards  
> (I'll try to check later), they'd certainly be useful.

Here are some pictures of the 630's motherboard:

     http://home
page.mac.com/schrier/q630.html

I think the rectangular white socket (with three rows of
pins) in it  
is the nubus one.  If it is, then it's likely I'll be able
to plug  
and test those cards.  (Anyone knows for sure?)

The thing is I've just got genfb to build with the code to
handle  
nubus cards.  But I cannot test it, so I doubt it will work
:P

Cheers,

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