[bad] LWCE/SF 2005 Debian booth organization
Daniel Asarnow
Daniel Asarnow <dasarnow@gmail.com>
Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:49:22 +0200
The Quadra 950 is indeed impressively slow... (33 Mhz)
It's the largest and heaviest mac ever built...it has 16 SIMM slots, 6
HDD bays, 5 NuBus slots and requires an actual key to operate.
I can't help with the LCDs, I only have CRTs.
On 7/5/05, Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> wrote:
> Daniel Asarnow wrote:
> > Hokay...
> > My box (Athlon XP 1700+, GeForce 5600FX, CDRW, etc.) is about ready
> > for a reinstallation anyway, so we can do _whatever_ we want with it.
> >
> > I also have two Commodore Amigas and a Mac Quadra 950...probably these
> > would be useless unless we really want to show off architecture
> > diversity. The Amigas may not work, I have no RGB monitor and no
> > Amiga to VGA adapter so I haven't been able to test it.
>
> Sure, that sounds great if you can bring it. I have a laptop that's just
> about dead (LCD dead, keyboard dead), but pretty damn fast (P4 2.0GHz)
> that can be used with an external monitor and keyboard and is much
> easier to carry around than a tower.
>
> It might be nice to have a Mac, though. Just not that Bondi Blue iMac
> that Hans brought, because it did suck a lot. I'm sure the Quadra 950 is
> impressively slow!
>
> Speaking of which, we also need LCDs for all these machines (CRTs will
> *not* cut it due to their extreme nonportability!)
>
> --
> Joshua Kwan
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