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The 2008: What is your favorite Nubus card question

68kMLA Hardware 19 posts Jan 17, 2008 to Jan 22, 2008

#1 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 - 07:08 68kMLA

Since I snagged a Supermac DigitalFilm card recently I figure that is my current favorite.

What about you guys?

#2 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 - 09:14 68kMLA

None.

Not ever having owned a Nubus Mac, I can't say.

That being said I did have in my posession a Radius Rocket an AudioMedia card, and some SCSI card a while back. I sold them to various members here on the board. I had a great thread with pics and links to info, but sadly someone dropped a nuke on the board not too long ago, and poof! my thread is gone.

I love the idea of Radius Rockets though. Slap in a second (or 3rd or 4th) CPU and watch it fly. I wish there was stuff like this now. Sure there is a PhysX card (where is the Mac version BTW?), some other cards are also out there with custom FPU's and tons of RAM. They are also bloody expansive as hell.

/end thread de-railment.

#3 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 - 12:57 68kMLA

PhysX cards are a waste of money, don't pine for one.

#4 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 - 17:47 68kMLA

I was using it as an example.

Another waste of money is those "Killer NIC" cards.

#5 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 - 22:24 68kMLA

I wish we had a card that we can assign certain tasks to like un-zipping, flash video, rendering video, virus scanning, ect. So we could render video and then use the main cpu to do something different.

#6 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 - 22:34 68kMLA

What part of my topic did you people not understand?

#7 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 - 22:39 68kMLA

I wish we had a card that we can assign certain tasks to like un-zipping, flash video, rendering video, virus scanning, ect. So we could render video and then use the main cpu to do something different.

That's what multicore and decent operating systems are for, I think...

#8 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 - 08:16 68kMLA

Radius Thunder IV GX1600

What part of my topic did you people not understand?

The complicated part about sticking to the actual topic if I know anything about people in this place

#9 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 - 13:59 68kMLA

I vote for the Radius Rocket.

A Mac within a Mac. Can't get sweeter than that.

#10 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 - 15:42 68kMLA

I personally like all this digidesign NUBUS stuff... really impressing what all those cards were (and still are) able to do...

#11 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 - 19:25 68kMLA

I think too many people clip their hedges with power tools. Give me a good pair of oiled hand shears any day!

#12 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 - 13:41 68kMLA

i kno its "normal" but my vote also goes for the rdius rocket too. wish i had one

#13 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 - 15:34 68kMLA

Can't really say, but I do have a pile of them over there -----> in the corner. I'd have to say the cards I got from a friend that are for hooking up laboratory equipment to the computer. I don't remember what they are called anymore.

#14 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 - 17:45 68kMLA

Toby!

#15 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 - 18:02 68kMLA

Okay, all of those who are breaking forum rules by sticking to the OP's topic: clean up your act or you'll be suspended.

Anyway, I know it's as common as shit, but I'd say the Disk ][ controller card. Life with casette tapes is a pain after all.

#16 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 - 20:10 68kMLA

I'm fond of early video image grabbers -- both single frame and continuous. They challenged what it was possible to do with a Mac II family computer.

Anyway, I know it's as common as shit, but I'd say the Disk ][ controller card. Life with casette tapes is a pain after all.

Wow, a Disk ][ controller for NuBus Macs. When the hard disk runs out of space on the old 840/AV, just imagine how useful that extra 140KB of storage is going to be ;-) BTW, how do you load cassettes on a Mac II?

#17 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 - 21:12 68kMLA

I'm fond of early video image grabbers -- both single frame and continuous. They challenged what it was possible to do with a Mac II family computer.

Which ones have you used?

#18 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 - 11:42 68kMLA

Lexicon Nuverb FTW!

#19 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 - 12:57 68kMLA

Lexicon Nuverb FTW!

yeah...