Re: hd size for quadra 840

On 01 Apr, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
> i definitely noticed that when running mac os with the case off for a
> bit. i might have to augment the case in that case, just in case :).

That case lid is supposed never to be off when the machine is on.

> haven't yet taken the whole thing apart and am interested to know how
> much memory it will take. any advice here? i have 2 x 16MB sticks of
> 60ns (i think) RAM that go in 486s and the like, doubtful they'd work
> please advise.

MacTracker (http://www.mactracker.ca/) claims the max is  four 32M  
72-pin SIMMs, for 128M of RAM. That's probably the official,  
conservative Apple line, though, given what was available at the time  
of the 840's release.

More here:  
http://www.apple-history.com/body.php? 
page=gallery&model=840&performa=off&sort=date&order=ASC

On the 50G, 50-pin, 7200 RPM SCSI drives... now we're looking at 181G,  
50-pin drives. Hmm... Sure, I'll take 6, and, ummm, lemme see, three  
dozen 32M, 30-pin SIMMs.