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From: Carl Witthoft
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 00:33

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In article <1f19vxe.9h2x2x50su2oN@[192.168.0.2]>,
 quanEXCESSBAGGAGEtic@bigfoot.com (Geoffrey) wrote:

->Allan Cairns <axcairns@hotmail.com> wrote:
->
->> I am a long time PC user who recently picked up an old PowerMac 7200/90
->> running OS 7.6.1 out of curiosity.
->
->An old but solid machine, nice case design, the only real drawback is
->the limits on expandability (the processor is soldered to the
->motherboard, other Macs of the same era have the CPU on a daughtercard).
->

Yeah but if you really want :-)  you can buy G3 and G4 cards from Sonnet.  They 
plug into a PCI slot and run pretty well.   Of course there still is the 
backplane bus throttle.
-- 
Carl Witthoft  cgw@world.std.com  carl@aoainc.com  http://world.std.com/~cgw
Got any old pinball machines for sale?

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