19 Jul
2016
19 Jul
'16
4:36 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: aek at bitsavers.org
Sent: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:59:44 -0700
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Building the Ultimate Classic Mac.
On 7/18/16 12:44 PM, N0body H0me wrote:
Long ago, on "The auction site that must not be named", some guy
was selling an apple-branded case, with a bare motherboard inside
(or, perhaps only sparsely populated). The seller stated it was
the prototype motherboard for an 88k Mac that was never built. It
sold for a stupid amount of money....
I'm astounded. I didn't think any ever
made it to prototype or
hard-model
stage! I've seen bare boards for these (up to this point) mythical
beasts, but never a living, breathing machine. Must have been a piece
of work. Do any functional machines still exist? How did you encounter
them?
The 88100 si worked. Hurricane never got a functional 88110 before the
IBM/Apple
deal. Tessaract never booted MacOS.
Which bare board did you see? I was in the RISC products group doing driver and cpu
board bringup
starting with
the 88100 nubus boards to IBM RSC (never had a functional 88110) then 601
over to high end desktop product development with TNT.
Wow, so as Walter Cronkite would have said: "...and you were there."
The question I'm dying to ask is: Given the choice between the PPC
and the 88k (and ignoring Motorola's propensity to shoot itself in
the foot), which archetecture would you tend to favor (and why)?
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