Any Apple Quadra Users Here?

[trekiej]

Anyone here use or have used an Apple Quadra?

[Tension]

pfft!!!

[save2600]

Relax... maybe he wants to know if the 040 inside of that could be used to repair his GVP accelerator  :-D

I mean, what else would you do with one of those!   :crazy:

I have used one, but never wanted to afford it. Holy cow were they expensive. Still used an Amiga daily when that overpriced hunk of burnin' love came out anyway. lol

[blanning]

I have a 700.   Haven't done much with it yet.

brian

[Tenacious]

I have a Quadra 605 running 7.5.5.

[trekiej]

I guess I missed the 68040 macs because I was into C64, Amiga and Peecee.

(edit) I could include a hefty price tag of 3000 to 6000 us dollars and being a private in the military.
Some one once said that Macs were a bad investment. As soon as you buy one the price drops.

Being a 68k machine is about the only thing I like about it.
Apple is okay too.
:-D
I guess they are about the same in performance as an Amiga.
I could be wrong.
 :-D
Did Apple have Unix?
 :-?

[Methuselas]

trekiej wrote:

Did Apple have Unix?
 :-?

Yes, Trekie. It's called OSX.  :-P

[save2600]

I guess they are about the same in performance as an Amiga.

I believe the Mac did not catch up (and stole from) the Amiga until the early-mid 2000's. Mac (and PeeCee) was still a pile of steamy {bleep}e until the very late 90's-mid2000's, performance wise. And I for one, would still argue, that they haven't caught up yet and are heading the PeeCee way(investigate the OS3.9 dock to the current Mac OS taskbar litigation for one example).

-edit-

Jameson and Son wore off, but not before they ganged up on me!  :idea:

[Chrome]

Methuselas wrote:

trekiej wrote:

Did Apple have Unix?
 :-?

Yes, Trekie. It's called OSX.  :-P

Yes and no.  Apple did have AUX, Apple Unix. It sucked big time with very expensive proprieraty hw. It was time before WGS/PPC-era; early 1990`s ?

[Methuselas]

Chrome wrote:

It sucked big time with very expensive proprieraty hw.

*laughs*

Still sounds like OSX to me. :lol:

[trekiej]

@ save2600
Of course you know I was kidding about the performance.
I believe mac OS was a task switcher. Heck, I don't know what it was. It was Not An Amiga.

As far as the rest, I guess it is just a matter of opinion mate. :-D
I like some hip-hop but not all. I do like country ,not all  of it, but the 'out of no where' phrase I do not know about. I guess I did not know that country music was that popular until I saw a story on it on television.
Larry The Cable Guy speaks for some on some things.
I do not know how the whole lot of blue collar is like.
I am for sure it varies with individuals.

 :-D

[trekiej]

@ Methuselas
So, you are saying OSX = OSuX.
Is it better than winddoze(Turd Mark)?
 :-D

[trekiej]

I have been thinking of putting
" I support the I am not Doomey campaign for better internet posting " as my sig, but I may have to rethink it.
 :-D

[DrZarkov]

The Quadra was not very interesting. I've had a Quadra 840 AV for a very short time. My Amiga 4000 with Blizzard 68040 accelerator was running MacOS 8.1 via Fusion much faster than the Quadra made in the same time. With the Blizard 68060 the Amiga outperformed even the first Powermacs! Back in the 90s I prefered the Powerbooks, because there was not such a thing with AmigaOS. My first Mac was a PB 145b, bought in very good condition in 1996 for 100 DM (about 50 EUR or 70 US $), later I switched to the Duo line, with the "top" Duo 280c. Today they would call it a netbook.

And if you want Unix on a Quadra: Try NetBSD! That would be the best option. There is a port of "PearPC" for NetBSD, you could even start MacOS X on a Quadra! I've heard it takes about 2 weeks to see the start-screen...  :-D

[trekiej]

@ DrZarkov
I guess Asymmetric computing rocks.

The more things change the more....     .... we find out that peecee is ripping off the Amiga.
 :-D