First Monster Mac – day 7 of Apple Stories

I chugged along with my IIsi for about a year or so.  The first PowerMacs and Performas started coming out on the sales floor and the older systems started collecting dust.  Once again I made a deal to help move one of them out at a great price.  That day I brought home my Quadra 700!  It had 3 Nubus slots.  It was upgradeable to 20MB or RAM.  The VRAM was upgradeable so I could run Millions of colors on 13″ or 17″ monitor.  I called it a monster because I upgraded it in so many ways.

  • Maxed out memory
  • Maxed out VRAM
  • Hard drive upgrades (multiple times)
  • Video Capture board
  • MediaVisions – PAS 16 audio breakout board
  • PPC 601 card
  • Various video cards for dual monitor display

This was the machine that I finished college on.  With a modem I was dialed into the campus network and online via Gopher and Lynx.  I was downloading, chatting and even hit into NIUs Mainframe for my school work.  I even delivered my Color Theory’s final project via my Mac.

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