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Posted by: iMac600 on 2007-09-01 23:52:31
...but I did. Despite my lack of interest to computers, I couldn't help but snap these up for the price and rarity of the parts around this area.
For some strange reason I decided to look in the garbage crate at the markets today, and in doing so, a flash of blue caught my eye. Seconds later, i'd pulled up a Power Macintosh 6100 motherboard with the Gel Pack 601 processor.
😀
Kept sifting, and as I got closer to the bottom of the crate, I pulled up another large card. A 486 DOS card, Apple branded, missing the CPU but shouldn't be too hard to find another one. It had the adapter fitted as well to install it in a low-profile case.
😀 😀
Total price: $2.00.
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2007-09-02 00:02:36
Sweet! Let me know if you need an x100 power supply, I might have a spare kicking around.
Chances are good that the 486 card and adapter are from the 6100 I guess. Strictly speaking, unless you have something exceedingly rare there, it's probably a PDS card, rather than Nubus.
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Posted by: iMac600 on 2007-09-02 00:59:23
The card has a black edge connector which i'm thinking is NuBus, having never seen one before though. I have seen PDS sockets before though and this sure isn't it. I took some pics, albeit with a phone, and as bad as they are they'll just have to do.
6100 Motherboard
The PPC 601 Gel
The DOS Card
DOS Card Connector
I don't actually have a monitor for the 6100 anyway, so I think this will end up shelved rather than put to use.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2007-09-02 01:42:17
Looks like an Apple/Reply 486 PDS card to me. Did you find the cable you need to use to run that card? There are some on ebay cheap.
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Posted by: iMac600 on 2007-09-02 02:26:50
The external cable? In which case I haven't found it yet, unfortunately.
Additional details of the 2 large chips are:
VLSI 9504MS © 1993 Apple
CHIPS F84031
I also lifted the daughtercard from it and saw:
"VIBRA 16 © CREATIVE TECH '94" |
Posted by: MacNoob on 2007-09-02 07:39:18
The external cable? In which case I haven't found it yet, unfortunately.
Additional details of the 2 large chips are:
VLSI 9504MS © 1993 Apple
CHIPS F84031
I also lifted the daughtercard from it and saw:
"VIBRA 16 © CREATIVE TECH '94" Vibra 16 is a PC sound chip....
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Posted by: Bolle on 2007-09-02 08:13:02
The external cable? In which case I haven't found it yet, unfortunately.
Additional details of the 2 large chips are:
VLSI 9504MS © 1993 Apple
CHIPS F84031
I also lifted the daughtercard from it and saw:
"VIBRA 16 © CREATIVE TECH '94" Vibra 16 is a PC sound chip....
yep... why not?
the Houdini II PC card shipped with the 6100 has soundblaster support.
iMac600: your card is a PDS card. the connector is one for 040 PDS. the adapter thingy is an adapter from x100 PDS to 040 PDS. you can use the DOS card in a quadra series machine too. 😉
EDIT: some better pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=897649987&size=l
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=897649845&size=l
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=897484743&size=l
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Posted by: iMac600 on 2007-09-02 09:04:34
Ah, thanks. I hadn't seen a PDS card with this connector prior to today, but I see it's just the same connector, different shape.
This seems to be missing it's CPU. I asked around if there were any spare 486s, but they had none. I think I have a spare AMD 486 here, which should work, but i'll ask first... are there any differences between the Intel and the AMD which may cause issues?
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-09-02 16:51:15
The external cable? In which case I haven't found it yet, unfortunately.
Additional details of the 2 large chips are:
VLSI 9504MS © 1993 Apple
CHIPS F84031
I also lifted the daughtercard from it and saw:
"VIBRA 16 © CREATIVE TECH '94" Vibra 16 is a PC sound chip....
usually when it says creative it has something to do with sound
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