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| Unknown card in PDS slot | |
| Posted by: toples50 on 2015-06-07 09:19:31 Recently purchased a Quadra 650(68040/33) and today I opened and discovered a mystery card in the PDS slot.The card is Formac ProQuadra 50 v1.8.Any idea what this card does? | |
| Posted by: 360alaska on 2015-06-07 09:30:55 Can you take pics? | |
| Posted by: toples50 on 2015-06-07 09:58:59 I'll try asap. | |
| Posted by: Macdrone on 2015-06-07 10:11:36 A guess without anything else is a 50 MHz upgrade card. With pictures should give it away if it is something else. | |
Posted by: toples50 on 2015-06-07 10:25:51  | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-06-07 10:35:00 That's a CPU upgrade card, looks like an '040 still. | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2015-06-07 10:41:35 Yep, Formac was an acceerator company. Fab find, me has jealous! 8-o | |
| Posted by: Elfen on 2015-06-07 10:47:06 I agree. But I get a "You do not have permission to view this pic" error when clicking on the images. | |
| Posted by: toples50 on 2015-06-07 10:59:17 I think I fix the problem with pics.Whats the point to have an '040 card inside an '040 machine?Also I don't have the drivers so the card its unusable... | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-06-07 11:02:11 It's a faster clock speed. And check the Mac Driver Museum for it. | |
| Posted by: toples50 on 2015-06-07 11:12:39 At the moment I haven't found anything about this card in the Internet.I guess it's very rare card... | |
| Posted by: Macdrone on 2015-06-07 12:15:55 I'm sure formac got bought out and was long since gone on the Internet by being badged as something else. Look for an extension of the hard drive still boots as you may already have a driver installed. | |
| Posted by: toples50 on 2015-06-07 12:26:02 Unfortunately I formatted the machine...Today I've discovered the card. | |
| Posted by: Macdrone on 2015-06-07 12:37:16 Ugh darn then defiantly use the ideas listed. Maybe do a search for formac and see if they were bought out , if so the new company may be on the internet and the drivers they have would work. | |
| Posted by: trag on 2015-06-07 14:08:19 Formac sold the PCI Proformance III video card which was a contemporary with such cards as the ixMicro Ultimate Res and the ATI Rage. Early 3D support. So they were still around for a few years after the age of the Quadras. I used to keep up with the upgrade market pretty well, and I don't remember such a Quadra upgrade, but that's certainly what it looks like. It must have been kind of obscure. Perhaps only sold in the European market? | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2015-06-07 14:08:51 it looks like a pretty sweet card. | |
| Posted by: toples50 on 2015-06-08 02:52:12 Maybe someone from German can answer the question because Formac was Germany company. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-06-08 08:09:40 http://www.formac.com/en/index.html Still in business. Worth asking. | |
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2015-06-08 08:36:11I think I fix the problem with pics.Whats the point to have an '040 card inside an '040 machine?Also I don't have the drivers so the card its unusable...Yep, faster clock as TWF said. From the looks of that very high surface area heat sink/active cooling fan setup and the name on the sticker, I'm guessing 50MHz. That'd be quite the kick in the pants. Gotta find my ScanDUMP files for the rest of the Accelerator review pages. An earlier review that doesn't mention your next gen card in this thread: June, 1992_MacUser_Accelerators_Compared edit: @oP: schweet!!!!! [ 😉 ] | |
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