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Post #23 by Bunsen
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateThu, 10 Sep 2009 - 20:19
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/living-in-an-os-9-x-adb-serialmac-world.18509/
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PDQ? /I'm not familiar with that designation/variation.
Just so's you know, it stands for Pretty D___ Quick. :lol:

With the Wallstreet the processors are interchangeable and the processor module controls the bus speed
So if you drop a 292 CPU into a PDQ, you get the 83MHz bus and the better video? Or would there be other components in the 66MHz models that choke on the higher bus speed? I guess Mark Schreier would have the answer to that.

By the way, avoid the 13.3" LCDs on the Wallstreets; they are made of lose and fail. Get the active matrix 14" if you can.

You also get SCSI, ADB, Ethernet and Localtalk, built-in support for a second spanned display, and two Cardbus slots. One of them is a Zoomed Video slot, which allows you to input composite PAL/NTSC video direct to the GPU and screen without going through the CPU. You need a special card for that, which I've forgotten the name of for the moment. IIRC, there's also a DVD decoding card which takes advantage of that feature.

Add a USB/Firewire card and you have the perfect low-footprint bridge between the Old and New worlds. It's the Beige G3 of laptops :D

Does the CRT have a lump-on-a-rope too? / GOT VGA?
Hey I did give you a link to the specs above, and all the other Apple monitors listed on everymac. ;)

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