Will wrote some typically cool stuff, including the following: > 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.
Probably Jordan. Good guy, still at Apple today. I think he heads up 3rd-party peripheral testing under Tiger.x and Leopard now. > Didn't have the money and or price was a bit high at the > time. Yeah, that was definitely Jordan. > 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. It was part of the continuing strategy to use one or two logic board designs s broadly as possible. The J710's logic board was supposed to be able to accommodate a 603e as well, in which case it would be sold as the C510. Never produced even one of those, but technically, all it would take would be to slap a "C510" label on the front of a J710 case and stick a 603e in it. There was some question as to whether or not the C510 would be shipped able to support the same ZIF 604e as the J710 as well. I think Marketing decided that would probably be allowed, but would be an unsupported configuration. I'm amazed that your Umax G3 would run in CacheDoubler. We never even considered trying that in the lab. How weird. A dozen more J710's made it to the street (literally) in early 1998 when a bunch of guys stole them in plain boxes from a back of a delivery truck parked in front of our building. We figured that they thought they were getting boxes of memory (Century Memory, or something like that, was on the second floor of the Santa Clara building with us). Instead, they got empty chassis with no HD and no processor. I've always wondered if those units ever turned up on eBay. -Kennedy http://home.earthlink.net/~supermac_insider/ -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
