HI all, Watching this thread with interest. At the last AUSOM swapmeet, I picked up a dual-200mHz 604 card by Newer - with a honking great heatsink on it. Later, a friend gave me a PowerBase 180 to play with. The card fits in the slot, and I found the drivers to download, but as yet I haven't got any further than that.
The reasons for that are that I was thinking I could make this a cheap, slow, OS-X box, but the memory limit on the PBase (160 megs), and the expense of expanding it to that (currently on 64 megs), has kind of put me off that idea. Also, the Newer card is about 2" too high to fit in the slimline desktop case, so I'd have to remount the PBase guts into a PC case. My impression was that OS 9 was not dual-processor aware, that the applications themselves had to actively engage with the dual processors, and that 160 megs is not really enough to run X. I don't use Photoshop, I'm mostly audio and general mucking around, web surfing etc, so how much use is this combination going to be for me? What for example could I do with BeOS PPC, or Linux? Cheers all, Clae. >Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:39:00 -0400 >Subject: Re: MP daughtercard in Power Tower? >From: Dennis Wurster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I haven't done it with a Daystar Card, but I have used a dual 604/200 in a >PTP. It worked fine with MacOS 8.5 and BeOS. > >-=Dennis=- > >On 9/24/02 6:37 PM, "Sung Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone been able to successfully use a dual-604 daughtercard from a > > Daystar MP clone in the Power Tower Pro? -- David Clae Gason, Secretary, Melbourne Wireless mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://melbourne.wireless.org.au "God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing-pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. BE YOUR NOTE." -Rumi, The Mathnawi -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
