13 Jun
2016
13 Jun
'16
9:43 a.m.
On Jun 13, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Swift Griggs
<swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
The weird thing about this machine is that it says "PowerPC" right on the
front, but it's *NOT* a PPC. It's most definitely a 25Mhz 040'. I wonder
why that's there? Maybe the guy took the badge from another system, but I
don't think so. This was the original owner. I also wonder why this one is
called a "Quadra" when I know I used to have a 660AV that was a
"Centris".
Wikipedia seems to imply it was just a marketing name change only.
However, the article also mentions that most of the Quadras don't have a
floppy with motorized eject. Well, this one does. Perhaps it was replaced.
I just wonder what's up with these little nuances.
Where is the PowerPC label? Is it printed on the case underneath the floppy drive (like it
is on the 6100), or a sticker put somewhere else? Maybe the machine once had a PPC upgrade
installed and the sticker was put on.
I?ve seen pictures of some Centris 660AVs that had the auto-inject floppy, but I assumed
that by the Quadras they were all manual-inject. My family had a Quadra 660AV bought in
early ?94, it had a manual-inject floppy drive and caddy CD-ROM drive.
Brendan