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| Click here to select a new forum. | | What is LC 930? | Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2015-11-15 15:40:23
So I was looking at the System 7 source code, when I saw this Makefile. (Surrounding it is the dbLite, the PB Duo 210; SuperMario, a universal 68k ROM; and a universal RISC ROM.)
What's interesting is the mention of DSPs - and the tier indicates a full-sized LC AV Mac? It was in development since '92, at least, in parallel with the Power Macs.
| Posted by: Macdrone on 2015-11-15 15:45:56
could have been a concept , or prototytpe but I have never seen a LC past the 640 CD (considered an LC because of the 68LC040 on the motherboard)
| Posted by: Scott Baret on 2015-11-15 19:10:36
A theory: Apple wasn't selling dedicated server Macs yet in 1992. Could this have been a stripped down 950, for example, that was going to be sold to the educational market? LC had become synonymous with educational machines by that time, and this could have been a more affordable file server type Mac that schools could have bought with a hefty discount?
| Posted by: Macdrone on 2015-11-15 19:20:29
it says 68020 so it wouldnt even be a 900 series. 900's have full 040 and the 020 is different factor completely. At that point and year the 020 would make zero sense. At that point something with a 030 if leftover, but at that age the 020 should have been done even as far as power requirements would go even.
| Posted by: rsolberg on 2015-11-15 20:50:40
mc68020 is noted in each of the makefiles, including RISC, Universal, and dBLite (PB Duo ROM: '030, '040), so I expect it's not specifying actual hardware.
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