

See our Guide to G3 Daughter Cards and Guide to G4 Daughter Cards New Type of G3 Daughter Card, Mac Daniel, 1999.05.20.Ethernet: AAUI and 10Base-T connectors on back of computer.SCSI: DB-25 connector on back of computer.serial: 2 DIN-8 GeoPorts on back of computer.Microphone: standard 3.5mm minijack, compatible with line-level input including Apple’s PlainTalk microphone.SCSI bus: internal fast SCSI (to 10 MBps), external SCSI (to 5 MBps).Video: requires third-party video card, typically shipped with ixMicro Twin Turbo.RAM: 16 MB, expandable to 768 MB using 70ns 168-pin DIMMs (12 sockets), Apple notes “128 MB DIMMs can be used, but have not been tested” – this would bring total RAM to 1.5 GB.Our Mac OS 9 Group is for anyone using Mac OS 9, either natively or in Classic Mode.Got a multiprocessor pre-G3 Mac or clone? Join our Old Mac MP Group.Got a PCI Power Mac? Join our PCI PowerMacs Group.The 9500 was the first Mac available with multiple processors using technology licensed from Daystar.

Not quite the “twice as fast” we’d see with the G3 when it arrived in 1997, but very respectable performance.

123) notes that the 132 MHz PowerPC 604 in the 9500 is 87% faster than a 133 MHz Pentium for integer operations and 72% faster for floating point. Unlike the first generations Power Macs, the 9500 had PCI slots and used the PowerPC 604 processor, a significantly improved, second-generation PPC design.īYTE magazine (October 1995, p. 9515) was the first Power Mac tower with a replaceable CPU daughter cards. Using the same case as the 9150, the 9500 (a.k.a.
