From: Scott Birdwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:37:28 -0500
Just out of curiosity, have any of you guys seen and/or played with a
SuperMac J-710? I understand only a handful were made, never going
into full-scale production. Just thought I'd stir things up a bit.
Scott Birdwell
I really wanted one of these when they showed up. At least a handful
were offered for sale on this list by one of the Umax guys other then
Kennedy . Didn't have the money and or price was a bit high at the
time. If you go to the SuperMac archive site you will see that the
J-710 is oddly named. It uses the C500 case and an improved C500
motherboard more or less. It has next to nothing in common with the
J700 or S900. It also uses the same CPU Zif slot that both the C500/600
used. But came with 604e 200MHz or G3 250 MHz cpu's neither of which
were ever sold for the C machines as far as I can tell. I am lucky
enough to own one of the Umax G3 250 CPU's made for the J 710. It fits
just fine in my C500 and runs well! I got it from a guy on ebay a long
time ago . He bought it in a box of stuff and had no idea what it was.
I knew what it was right away from the description he gave of it. They
had been talked about here by one of the Umax guys. There were like 6
of them left over at the end that lacked J 710 machines for them. It
can be plugged right in the Zif slot on the C500 where it runs @ 40MHz
bus or I decided to live dangerously and plugged it into the cache
doubler card where it runs at 80 MHz bus just fine. It is also possible
to run OSX on the C500 using this Zif card but with 144 MB RAM not
going to be fast. I've not had it running for sometime now. At least
one list member (Niles? ) has OSX running on a C600 with G3 Zif which
isn't possible with the L2 upgrades . Will S
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