25 Jun
1998
25 Jun
'98
5:27 a.m.
At 05:43 AM 6/25/98 -0400, you wrote:
Question: Will any nubus card work in any mac with a
nubus slot? (I'm
talking standard form, one piece card, not the little two piece connected
jobbies found on the SI/LC etc.)
Probably not. Obvious exapmle: a 68030 upgrade board probably wouldn't be
all that great in a 68030+ based mac. Other than stuff like that, though,
I think yes, NuBus is supposed to be pretty standard. (And yes, you can
put in multiple video cards and use multiple monitors for that starship
effect.)
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25 Jun
25 Jun
5:46 a.m.
At 12:27 PM 6/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
Probably not. Obvious exapmle: a 68030 upgrade board
probably wouldn't be
all that great in a 68030+ based mac. Other than stuff like that, though,
I think yes, NuBus is supposed to be pretty standard. (And yes, you can
put in multiple video cards and use multiple monitors for that starship
effect.)
I'm running like that now under Windows 98. That's one point FOR windows 98
at least. :)
The reason for the nubus question: We've got quite a few 10mbps network
cards that were pulled from Mac II machines, and quite a few IIcx and IIci
machines without them. I just wasn't sure about this, since I heard even a
Mac SE and Mac SE/30 couldn't swap cards.
Speaking of networking, if you own a bunch of older macs, another
alternative to an internal card is the Asante EN/SC series of SCSI network
adapters. I cam eacross one or two here at work and they work pretty good.
It's even got it's own SCSI ID number, and works just like a regular
network adapter card. Just thought I'd mention it.
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29 Jun
29 Jun
7:24 a.m.
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, John Higginbotham wrote:
The reason for the nubus question: We've got quite
a few 10mbps network
cards that were pulled from Mac II machines, and quite a few IIcx and IIci
machines without them. I just wasn't sure about this, since I heard even a
Mac SE and Mac SE/30 couldn't swap cards.
The slot in the SE and SE/30 is not Nubus. They're both "Processor Direct
Slot" types (PDS) and are machine-specific.
Both the IIcx and IIci use Nubus.
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