[geeks] LX/Classic Cycle comp upgrade board?

[Andrew Weiss]

That's a Power Macintosh 5200 series motherboard tray.

Andrew

PPC601 heatsink


On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 09:37  AM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> --- Mike Hebel <nimitz at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> Kurt Huhn wrote:
>>> Mike Hebel <nimitz at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
>>>> Is this thing what I think it is or does he just have th wrong
>>>> picture up?
>>>>
>>
>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ 
>>> eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1244&item=2087549789
>
>>> Granted, I haven't been inside my Sparc Classice for a while, but
>>> this certainly doens't look like a Classice to me.  For one, there
>>> appears to be PCI slots...
>
>> That's why I was thinking Cycle Comp upgrade board.  I remember
>> seeing such a picture but IIRC their site has gone bye-bye by this
>> time.
>
> This looks like a Mac MB to me, maybe from one of the all-in-one
> systems... Note the odd cutout on the upper right side of the image...
>
> Also, it looks like a cache SIMM next to the RAM.
>
> The Classic/LX MBs do not have an attached backplate, like the SS/5 or
> Ultra 1 MBs (for example) do...
>
>> Strange as it sounds they were shoving TurboSparcs into those boxes
>> and UltraSparcs into the pizza format.  If I had money to play with
>> I'd make  a bid.
>
> I have a turboSPARC IPX (cute, mostly RAM sockets, since it takes a
> full complement of IPX RAM, as well as 4 72 pin SIMMS), and have heard
> of Ultra-class upgrades for pizza boxes, but not seen one.
>
> =====
> Lionel
>
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