Hey guys, new user on this forum.
I have an old Quadra 650, first computer I ever owned. Used it for years but a few years ago the HD burned out. I figured this was a good chance to upgrade to something newer. Well I did but i miss System 7 and all the excellent games/programs that I had access to before. I also miss the blazing fast speed and the surprisingly good video hardware on this thing. SO I pulled the motherboard out of a box, got the case unfrozen from the ground outside, cleaned it up and it runs great. I have a new hard drive coming in should be here next week, as well as a tray loading 4x cdrom to replace the caddy. This machine has 24 mb of ram which I may want to upgrade but we'll see.
Anyway, I was thinking if it would make any sense to add any upgrades. I have 2 nubus slots open, the other is blocked by the PPC PDS card, and I guess a video card would be nice. What would you guys reccomend? I looked on ebay but none of them really have any sort of specs or descriptions with them. The built in video is still really great though. Also, a network card would that be any better than the built in AAUI? I have the adapter.
I got some money to throw at this thing, want it to be the best system 7 machine i can get so let me know what you think.
Thanks, Russ
I have an old Quadra 650, first computer I ever owned. Used it for years but a few years ago the HD burned out. I figured this was a good chance to upgrade to something newer. Well I did but i miss System 7 and all the excellent games/programs that I had access to before. I also miss the blazing fast speed and the surprisingly good video hardware on this thing. SO I pulled the motherboard out of a box, got the case unfrozen from the ground outside, cleaned it up and it runs great. I have a new hard drive coming in should be here next week, as well as a tray loading 4x cdrom to replace the caddy. This machine has 24 mb of ram which I may want to upgrade but we'll see.
Anyway, I was thinking if it would make any sense to add any upgrades. I have 2 nubus slots open, the other is blocked by the PPC PDS card, and I guess a video card would be nice. What would you guys reccomend? I looked on ebay but none of them really have any sort of specs or descriptions with them. The built in video is still really great though. Also, a network card would that be any better than the built in AAUI? I have the adapter.
I got some money to throw at this thing, want it to be the best system 7 machine i can get so let me know what you think.
Thanks, Russ