Crisisdog wrote:
I have a Quadra 630 sitting in my closet that I haven't used in years. I overclocked the 68040 from 33MHz to 40MHz by resoldering some resistors. Loaded with OS 8.1, definitely slower than my A3000 with an 040/40. The only good thing about it was that it had IE4 and could support Javascript, a somewhat better browsing experience than anything the Amiga had / has.
Macs didn't become "useful" until OSX. I had a PowerMac 9500 running with a hacked copy of 10.2, way better than OS9.
I also have a PowerMac G5, kinda sad to see Apple once again forcing users to upgrade hardware to another chip platform as all PowerPC systems will no longer be supported with the next revision of OSX (10.6).
8.1 was more than just a 0.1 update to 8.0. It even hobbles a 200mhz ppc mac when you go from 8.0 to 8.1. Stick 8.0 and your quadra will go very nicely.
Yeah i hate the way Apple kills off hardware that could run its latest OS if they chose to continue to support it
