Gene Osburn wrote:
I was always afraid that I was going to damage the "Catalyst" systems I owned by putting in EDO dimms. I get my memory the same way I get my computers, by scavenging. The result was that sometimes I had no clue if my dimms were FPM or EDO. So if I came up with a 168 pin dimm I put it in my Mac and asked questions later!
I really liked the 8600/300 when I first picked one up used. That's why I recently grabbed another when OWC made me an offer I just couldn't refuse 8^)
My first 'puter of any kind was a new PowerCenter 150MT in '97, which I kept and upgraded for several years before I found it a good home with a couple of senior citizens who were relatively new to Macs. Its first significant processor upgrade was a 604e/240 from a PCPro and a 1 MB cache. My memory is that the 8600's performance seemed very comparable to the 240's; the PCP's 60 MHz bus seemed to equalize matters.
I never had *any* probs with any of PCC's Catalyst systems, and I've had a few of them. The video/PCI riser *WAS* a bit of an oddball design solution, but for me it had its upside; many people weren't aware that simply reseating the riser card was often an effective solution to otherwise inexplicable problems - got me a couple of perfectly good PCC machines that other folks had given up on ;^)
There's still a very warm spot in my heart for those gone-but-not-forgotten rebels at PCC. Bring back Sluggo, and "Let's kick Intel's ass!"
===== Gene, a.k.a. G-Man Friends don't let friends do Windows
Chris Wood
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