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What is the card in this Colour Classic?

Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2020-12-01 06:02:34 This is a picture from an auction I am interested in. What is the card on the motherboard? The seller happens to have the box of a Sonnet L2/G3 on offer with the Colour Classic but this can't be that. That would make the motherboard one from an early PCI Powermac (like a 5400). Could it be a Sonnet 040 card? What do ye think?

Posted by: Bolle on 2020-12-01 06:24:32 Could it be a Sonnet 040 card? It is.

Posted by: jessenator on 2020-12-01 07:12:40 I had never heard of this upgrade till today (at least not what it was—thought the Presto Plus was something else…). I guess sonnet knew what they were doing (if there was any doubt) :lol:   https://everymac.com/upgrade_cards/sonnettech/presto/presto_plus.html https://www.sonnettech.com/support/downloads/manuals/presto_plus_install.pdf 040, RAM, and 10baseT all on one compact LCPDS card. Amazing.

Posted by: pcamen on 2020-12-01 09:00:12 That's a nice upgrade.  The only thing missing is a video card.  I have CC with a 575 board in it (Mystic) with a com slot ethernet card, and managed to get a Radius pivot LC card in it.  Now if I could only get it to work again.

Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2020-12-01 11:10:04 Thanks very much everybody. According to the seller, the CC doesn't seem to work, but, even still, it does look enticing. And it's only at CHF54 at the moment, with 2 active bidders and a week still to go.

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