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Found an interesting RA Adapter Card . . .

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2010-02-26 09:57:59 . . . in one of the Magic Plastic Shoe Boxen™! The stock 040 RA Adapter card is shown for reference. It appears to be a RA adapter from a PPC603e PDS bridged to a 68040 PDS to me. :?: In one of my former lives, I concentrated on snagging every bridged adapter card known to man and Mac collector. }🙂

Posted by: jruschme on 2010-02-26 11:38:32 That would be the adapter from a 6100 DOS card (Houdini). John

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2010-02-26 11:58:26 Cool, so it is a 603e <-> 68040 Bridged PDS adapter? :?:

Posted by: jruschme on 2010-02-26 13:28:14 Well, the 6100 is actually a 601 PPC, but yes.

Posted by: Bunsen on 2010-02-26 20:20:58 It is claimed that only DOS cards will work on that adapter (if jruschme is correct in his ID). I wonder though if you could fool an '040 PPC Upgrade into working, and have .... ... uh, a 601 upgraded 601 :?:

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2010-02-26 21:09:55 [:O] ]'> NEVER, say things like that around me . . . :disapprove: . . . then again! [}🙂] ]'> [😱)] ]'>

Posted by: beachycove on 2010-02-27 07:54:09 If it were not for the date, I would have said it could also be for a Quadra 610. There was an adapter that allowed standard 040 pds cards to be used in them. I don't, however, have a Q610 to compare the slot with the pic.

Posted by: jruschme on 2010-02-27 10:39:51 Back when I was using q Q610, I wanted a DOS card. Real Quadra DOS cards were somewhat unobtainium, but 6100 cards were very common. IIRC, I picked up a 6100 DOS card from ebay and a 610 right angle adapter (for the PPC upgrade) from LEM Swap. All I had to do was move the DOS card to the other adapter. Basically, the Q610 pds adapter is the other one in the picture.

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