On Oct 5, 2005, at 11:11 PM, Samual Acorn wrote:
'quadra 950 introduced 1992 at $8500' (source; lowendmac.com)
-please- tell me you didnt buy that new..
after looking at the specs tho it would make a great webserver
(running linux of course) ;)
one question; what format exactly are you digitizing that audio as?
i dont think an ogg vorbis or mp3 encoder would be very speedy on a 68k
(if such even exsists)
Sorry Sam, for the late reply - I've been away.
You made some good points but I still don't agree with you :-)
I did NOT buy my Quadra 950's new or indeed any of the Macs I own with
the sole exception of my 12" G4 PowerBook. But loads of people did buy
them new - and no doubt - thought they where the best buy on the market
at that time :-)
Frankly I just like them - and at todays prices I don't really have to
do much justification! I like mine with a five hard drive carrier, set
as a RAID array (you don't need linux to do it). I agree they make a
nice webserver (you can use MacHTTP to do that also without running
linux).
I don't think you can even run linux on a Q950 because of the
"undocumented" chips (I did look at this once). I would of thought that
it was possible to reverse-engineer the ROM code to work out how to
control the hardware. Maybe even replace the ROM with a simple one that
uses the programable "OS" instead. But I guess that's too much effort
for too little return. Which leads me back to my point that - given the
difficulties - why not just use a PC instead for Linux?
My "audio" 950 has a AudioMedia II sound card and I run the Sound
Designer s/w that came with it. It records in a file format called
"Sound Designer II audio file" and these can be saved as AIFF files.
However I have installed a Yamaha CD-burner in the 950, and can use
Toast 3.5 to burn an Audio CD with these files which play on a normal
cd player fine. Or I send the files over my network to my B&W G3 iTunes
which recognizes the Sound Designer II files and can either play them
direct or convert them to mp3's.
I did find an application that would batch process the mp3 conversion
on the 950 but it takes a long time and the 68040 doesn't have enough
power to play mp3's directly. Obviously it plays the the Sound designer
II files which are stored on a RAID array of 4 X 9Gb drives without
effort.
It sounds good to me - but this could well be that the analogue audio
circuit techniques haven't always got better with time :-) So the
digital side is "good enough", and the analogue side is pro quality.
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