Hello, Quadlist! My name's Dan, and I'm new to Quadlist. I just thought I'd introduce myself, as well as my Quadra 800, and pose a few riddles to you veteran 040 users.
My Quadra 800 has been in the family for less than two years now, it was purchased in January of 2001 to be used by my father Steve as a web browser and emailer. After about 8 months of service, it was retired as he felt it to be too slow. Back then it had 12mb of RAM, the 230mb Hard Drive, and MacOS 8.1. It then sat, for a LONG time. Every once in a while I'd pull it out to fiddle, but never really used it. Just about one month ago however, I decided to set it up in my bedroom as a light web browser. I installed system 7.5.3 and some internet software. I found it to be slow as well. So, after about a days worth of scrounging up every 72pin SIMM I could find, I then began an arduous task of figuring out how big each one was. This took me about 45 minutes of restarting the computer each time with a single SIMM installed, then I would subtract 8 from the total. When it was all said and done I had a grand total of 57mb of RAM in my Quadra 800! I switched off VM, and WOW this thing began impresing me. Then, to make matters even better, my friend practically gave me a 10,000rpm 4.5gb Seagate Cheetah SCSI hard drive. Once again, WOW. The wow was coming from me saying to myself "This thing is 9 years old. None of my 33mhz Windows machines could do this! (And I have several)." Another wow: It could play the 67mb QuickTime "The old Apartment" music video featured on the MacOS 8 install cd (which I did NOT install) perfectly. Then again: Using VNC, I could (surprisingly easy and not too slowly) control all the other Macs and PCs in the house. Anyway as the story goes on, I became engulfed in this Machine. As some of my friends know, it has become my favorite, and MOST USED Macintosh, even though my G3/400 system is in the basement. I also have started to become infactuated with older Mac technologies. I refuse to upgrade to 8, I refuse to put a PowerPC chip in here, and I think PowerTalk operating system integrated email services is the coolest thing I have ever seen. I've been installing a ton of software, and the 4.5gb hard drive seems to have barely anything in it. It's become my quest to have the most souped up, tricked out, 68k Macintosh Quadra on earth, or at least out of anybody I know. This christmas season I've ordered a new SuperMac Video card, which I plan to begin using dual monitors with, 136mb of RAM, and something called the Sonnett QuadDoubler. After all, isn't it nothing more than a replacement CPU with a 50mhz clock speed? Now heres where the question, comes in: Everywhere I go all I hear is "The QuadDoubler will not work in the Quadra 800." However, the company I ordered it from (MicroMac actually) not only guaranteed me it will work, they're shipping it already installed inside a complete Quadra 800. They told me that once I'm satisifed it works, they'll pay for the rest of the Quadra 800 to be shipped back to them, along with the card if I'm not satisified. I haven't gotten it yet, but I'm becoming very anxious. It comes in on Monday. Will this thing actually work in my Quadra 800 or not? Thanks for listening to my rants! Long live the Quadra 800! -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
