[geeks] scsi notebook drives

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:57:08PM -0700, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 10:22 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >But, its fine if others think differently.
> 
> You had to be there.  I remember when it was released, we were all 
> popping big, chubby ones.  Especially the science types, as a 40MHz 
> 68040 with FPU was amazingly fast in 1990 terms.  Most UNIX workstation 
> were still 68030 as well (and lower speed!), the SPARCstation was just 
> really starting to take off, this was damn near the speed of a SPARC 1 
> (10 MIPS .vs. 12.5), and ran Mac apps, of which there were a bunch.

LEM reports that the IIfx was a 68030, albeit one at an insane
clockrate.  So, this was about the time that the SPARCs were out at
25mhz, and the r2k was out at sub-20mhz.
 
> It was, in fact, Apple's first attempt at a real workstation.  With the 
> right software, it still flies.

Well, I'm not arguing that for a short amount of time it was an
amazing speed demon.

Just in my book I'd rather try and put Quadra's to real use rather
than actually use a IIfx due to expensive ram and wierd scsi.
Personally, I'd love to get a stack of Quadra 950s, and perhaps
another 840av, when I have more space.  At least one 950 should hold a
macivoryIII setup, and another should hold an avid avr70 capable
setup. 

BTW, was the 68040 such a minor upgrade that a 40mhz 68030 is faster
than a 33mhz 68040, because that is the only way I'd think a claim
that the IIfx was the fastest till the 840av could be supported.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd