[rescue] what can you do with an Apple Quadro 840AV

[luigi30 at gmail.com]

Yes, it had an AT&T DSP3210. I donbt think it was used for very much other
than video decoding.

As usual, it was offered to Commodore by AT&T for the Amiga 3000 but they
fucked it up somehow and Apple ended up with it.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 24, 2018, at 2:44 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
>
> didn't the 840AV have some onboard DSPs or something? They were used to
accelerate... something?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Rikli" <sr at genyosha.net>
> To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 6:49:27 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [rescue] what can you do with an Apple Quadro 840AV
>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 07:42:07PM -0500, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 7:23 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo <xemacs5 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> One of these sort of dropped into my lap (figuratively speaking).
>>
>> I was going to suggest A/UX but I see that model is not compatible.
>> Incompatible with the MacIvory Symbolics Lisp Machine too.
>>
>> Mach Ten or find a copy of Macintosh Common Lisp for 68k?
>>
>> Play obscure old games?
>>
>> Donate to a Macintosh museum?
>>
>> It was the fastest 68k machine Apple made but there's really nothing
>> all that special anymore that can only be done with them.
>
> NetBSD is a possibility if you're looking for a Unix-like OS, and
> the 840AV is listed as a supported model:
>
> http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/mac68k/
> _______________________________________________
> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
> _______________________________________________
> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue