Quadra 650 running A/UX — #24

Post #24 by dafoomie

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Tue, 23 Jun 2015 - 03:28
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/quadra-650-running-a-ux.1239/

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hellslinger said:
Now I want to install A/UX on my Quadra 700! I really wish I had kept my 650 from when I was a kid. That thing ran Marathon 2 like a champ.

IIRC, the bad part of the 650 case was the cover. The ability to have a tray CD ROM in the box was nice. If there had been a separate cover and front bezel, it would have been a lot better. The clunky bezels are usually the first thing missing/damaged from any old system I come across.

Fortunately my cover is decent looking and I was able to find the correct CD-ROM bezel for it.

It came out right after all those awesome snow white macs but before the Spindler plastic so it's not a bad case, but it looks like every other beige box that was around in the mid 90s. The Quadra 700 was the height of attractiveness for non-compact mac cases.