--- John Niven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd love to know what you put in your 5 PCI slots? > And why on earth > would you consider a floppy drive to be useful - > except if you want to > boot MSDOS :-P > > You sure offend easily. The only use there is for > optical media is > loading programs, or for bootlegging copyright > material. If you have a > 250Gb hard drive how many DVD roms will it take to > back that up?
Video editing and multimedia production. Those chew up gigs and gigs with uncompressed video and audio data. That used to be the nearly exclusive domain of the Macintosh, just below the proprietary commercial A/V systems. The 9500/9600 was a godsend to the A/V industry because it could be stuffed full of specialized hardware. Then Apple gave the finger to that market segment with the Beige G3 having only three slots. Quite useless for many editing systems that had at least four PCI cards for doing various things to video and audio. Check out what some of the Digidesign audio systems had in a 9600. :) Just prior to the release of the slot-impaired G3, Apple was >thisclose< to producing the most mega-expandable, goodie loaded Macintosh ever. Codenamed "Power Express". It got as far as the engineering sample stage, which for Apple hardware was usually identical to the production model. A Power Express turns up on eBay now and then, they always go for high prices. It will be total Fandemonium! August (Fri) 5th, (Sat) 6th & (Sun) 7th, 2005 http://www.fandemonium.org ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs 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> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
