On Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:32 PM, Kennedy Brandt replied to: Greg wrote:
> My S900 came out of the box with an ATI 3D card. I >think< it was one of the > last production models, as the person that sold it to me had stockpiled > several of the machines after the Umax license ran out. You think right. It would have been a very late model unit. Officially, it never happened, but there were a few people who did quite a few things towards the end to keep units rolling off the assembly line until 11:59:59pm. I'd guess a few hundred, at most. On the other end of the timeline, there was the S900D, and who knows what video card resellers put in those. IX Micro, ATI, and Radius were all likely players in the early days, but would have been warrantied and supported separately from the computers themselves. -Kennedy SuperMac Insider (http://home.earthlink.net/~supermac_insider/) Well, one COULD purchase an S900D from the catalog vendors for $3400, which is what I did. It was delivered with NO video card, no HD, no memory other than the 16MB soldered in RAM and a Toshiba 6.7 X CD-ROM drive. I bought an ims TwinTurbo 2MB (upgradeable to 4MB) video card and two 16MB FPM memory DIMMs. Initially, I ran off an external drive, but quickly purchased a 2GB Quantum drive from APS. Actually, by the time I got through, I could have bough the S900L cheaper. It was you, Kennedy, that explained what the 'D' stood for: >> From: UMAX Employee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 07, 1998 12:28 PM Re: "I couldn't remember what the suffix was. I could remember 'L' for loaded, but "D"? Oh, well, I knew you'd know what I meant." "D" stood for "Deconfigured" -- an idea we considered revisiting with the S900Base, but by the time we got around to shipping those, it turns out they were pretty loaded themselves and all the "base" could really be applied to was the starting point for the processor (a 150MHz 604 in a 250MHz 750 world). There's nothing like SKU proliferation to keep things interesting.... Best regards. >> -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
