Lisp Machine NuBus card for PM 7100

[Nils Kassube]

Guten Abend.

I've got a PowerMac 7100/66. Is it possible to get one of the Lisp
Machine on a NuBus cards from e.g. Symbolics and use it with this
otherwise dust-collecting PowerMacintosh? Or do I need a 68k-Mac?

Cheers,
Nils

[Carl Shapiro]

Nils Kassube <ni...@kassube.de> writes:

> I've got a PowerMac 7100/66. Is it possible to get one of the Lisp
> Machine on a NuBus cards from e.g. Symbolics and use it with this
> otherwise dust-collecting PowerMacintosh? Or do I need a 68k-Mac?

If you want to run a Symbolics MacIvory you'll most likely need a Mac
II of some sort. If you are lucky and get a board with the right ROM
revision you might be able to run it in a Quadra. The TI
microExplorer seems to be a bit less finicky and has run in most every
NuBus 68k Macintosh I've tried.

[Raymond Wiker]

Carl Shapiro <csha...@panix.com> writes:

The day after first saw the message above, I found a
MicroExplorer in a pile of other, older NuBus cards, and bought it for
the princely sum of $3.24 (which includes 8% sales tax :-)

I would like to know more about this card, and possibly get it
up and running at some point. It's actually two PCBs, connected via a
96-pin header. It appears to have 48MB dynamic RAM (112 44256 chips,
but I assume that some of these are for parity), as well as 512KB of
70ns static RAM (cache or microcode, I guess.) There's a 40 MHz
oscillator on the board.

Markings on the main board include:
ASSY2551910-0001(K)
PWB2551911-0001(*)
SCHEM2551912(A)
H40 A3 041 8818

Help?

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[Dr. Edmund Weitz]

Raymond Wiker <Raymon...@fast.no> writes:

> The day after first saw the message above, I found a
> MicroExplorer in a pile of other, older NuBus cards, and bought it
> for the princely sum of $3.24 (which includes 8% sales tax :-)

Where does one find this kind of piles?

I've been looking for this kind of thing for almost a year now (Ebay
and other places) and would be willing to pay slightly more than $3.24
... :)

Best regards,
Edi.

[Raymond Wiker]

In this particular case: "Weird Stuff Warehouse", in
Sunnyvale, California. I'm in California on a short-term work
assignment, and noticed the sign outside this place when I was out for
a run the other day; it's comfortably within walking distance from
where I'm staying.

I was *really* surprised when I found this card :-)

[Petter Gustad]

Raymond Wiker <Raymon...@fast.no> writes:

> e...@agharta.de (Dr. Edmund Weitz) writes:
>
> > Raymond Wiker <Raymon...@fast.no> writes:
> >
> > > The day after first saw the message above, I found a
> > > MicroExplorer in a pile of other, older NuBus cards, and bought it
> > > for the princely sum of $3.24 (which includes 8% sales tax :-)
> >
> > Where does one find this kind of piles?
> >
> > I've been looking for this kind of thing for almost a year now (Ebay
> > and other places) and would be willing to pay slightly more than $3.24
> > ... :)
>
> In this particular case: "Weird Stuff Warehouse", in
> Sunnyvale, California. I'm in California on a short-term work

I saw your .sig and was hoping that your reply would be "somewhere in
Norway"...

Petter
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