PowerMac 8500/120... must have been 30 MHz bus speed times a multiplier of 4 to equal 120 MHz when it rolled off the assembly line.
But Apple System Profiler is reporting 132 MHz, which would be a bus speed of 33 MHz. That's cool, but since 132 is so close to 120, did the last owner put in a very very modest CPU upgrade or is "120" just a misnomer?
It's a 40MHz with 3:1 CPU:bus ratio for the 120 MHz of the original configuration. Yes, a 132 MHz CPU (44MHz bus) would be a processor upgrade (slight). 132 MHz was one of the other available CPU speeds for a 8500. When someone with a 132MHz model upgrades to a faster model they have a the 132MHz available so they often get sold cheap to upgrade other systems.
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