Massively Speeding Up Apple's First Power Mac!

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  @robsquared2 · 3 years ago

  Turns out Apple's love affair with dongles goes back farther than I thought.

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• EY

  @Eyetrauma · 3 years ago

  lol an upgrade from 601 to G3 is so absurd, the 90s were a wild time

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• DA

  @davidraso · 3 years ago

  Funny how many times "Apple created a software emulator" has come up in their history to handle processor changes.

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• EO

  @Eocene84 · 3 years ago

  LOL The Carl Sagan thing was hilarious. Oh, man.

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• TH

  @TheIrisCZ · 3 years ago

  To be honest, Apples' trolling with the codenames was funny as hell.

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• MM

  @MmntechCa · 3 years ago

  My dad had the original 66MHz model without the internal CD drive. Mainly used it for CAD work for his civil engineering business. First computer I played Doom and Wolf 3D on. Also the first computer I remember using the internet on. Shame he trashed it years ago.

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  @the_beefy1986 · 3 years ago

  I miss those days. I recall upgrading my PowerMac G4 Digital Audio with a dual 1 GHz CPU from a G4 QuickSilver model. Apple decided it was unthinkable for people to do it even though the CPUs were pin- and electrically-compatible. So they designed the QS CPU daughter card to sense the presence of 12v on one of the screw posts. Easy enough to rig up, but just needless anti-consumer shit that we've often seen from Apple over the decades.

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• WO

  @WOSArchives · 3 years ago (edited)

  Fun fact: As you mentioned, while Apple did gradually rewrite more and more of the classic Mac OS with PPC code (especially in Mac OS 8.5, the first PPC-only version of Mac OS), some parts of even Mac OS 9 were still using 68k code, although one of the goals of the Copland rewrite was to be fully PPC native, but I think we all know what happened to that project. It took until Mac OS X for a fully native PPC version of Mac OS to be released.

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• DA

  @DanielMReck · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWLI04q7-eY&amp;t=323">5:23</a> Oh, when we thought such a legal analysis would be the finest of all time. Those were innocent days and restful nights.

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• KI

  @kirishima638 · 3 years ago

  I had a 6100/66 in the late 90s and got a G3 accelerator in &apos;99. It made a massive difference. I did a lot of 3D rendering on that thing. And Marathon, of course.<br><br>I recently brought an SSD upgrade for my 2012 iMac and was surprised to see the same newer tech logo on the box! They&apos;re still in business!

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• VO

  @volvo09 · 3 years ago

  I really enjoy your Mac history, especially all these upgrade cards and machines you feature. I never paid any attention early apple computers, so it&apos;s always fun to see what was going on outside of PC land.

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• MR

  @MrLurchsThings · 3 years ago

  Ahh, chasing performance bottlenecks. The money I poured into my LAN party rig through the late 90s and early 2000’s to battle this, well - I’d prefer not to think about it. <br>But processor upgrades like this, in todays retro scene certainly have a huge cool factor, so finding a couple to show us is certainly appreciated. Especially with the added commentary about its history and what was happening when it first came out.

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