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teflon nonstick

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:42 am
Post subject: Video card for 7200 powermac?
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Hi all, First time here and not an expert.

The 7200 Powermac is a 'one trick pony' hitched to a drum scanner. It's
running OS 7.6 and batch scan software - that's it. Only need basic image
settings in the scanning software, but millions of colours (4mb?) would be
peachy compared to the onboard 1mb it has at the moment.
Images are transferred to a G4 for processing.

Price is number 1 consideration and far more important than performance. I
did consider 'vram dimm' memory, but it's more expensive than an old card.

I have both an 12" Apple monitor - with it's special connecter - and a
'normal' VGA monitor. I'm not fussed which one I use, though a VGA monitor
would be easier to source if I needed a quick replacement.

Any suggestions please?

Thanks for reading.

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:46 am
Post subject: Re: Video card for 7200 powermac? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On 14/7/06 01:42, in article C0DCA6F6.D11C%teflon1_@uku.co.uk, "teflon
nonstick" <teflon1_ RemoveThis @uku.co.uk> wrote:

I should have mentioned, it's a PCI slot. But you probably knew that
already.

Thanks.

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:14 am
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Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:42:42 GMT, teflon1_.RemoveThis@uku.co.uk suggested:
: Hi all, First time here and not an expert.
:
: The 7200 Powermac is a 'one trick pony' hitched to a drum scanner. It's
: running OS 7.6 and batch scan software - that's it. Only need basic image
: settings in the scanning software, but millions of colours (4mb?) would be
: peachy compared to the onboard 1mb it has at the moment.
: Images are transferred to a G4 for processing.
:
: Price is number 1 consideration and far more important than performance. I
: did consider 'vram dimm' memory, but it's more expensive than an old card.
:
: I have both an 12" Apple monitor - with it's special connecter - and a
: 'normal' VGA monitor. I'm not fussed which one I use, though a VGA monitor
: would be easier to source if I needed a quick replacement.
:
: Any suggestions please?

See if you can find an ATI Rage 128 PCI pulled from a blue & white G3 on eBay.
That should be plenty of card for what you're doing. It's very important that
you get the Mac version of the card. PC versions will not work because the Mac
requires a special ROM to be present on the card before it can use it.

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agreenbu @ nyx . net andrew michael greenburg
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teflon nonstick

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:42 pm
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On 14/7/06 03:14, in article slrnebdvgs.9rl.agreenbu.RemoveThis@nyx1.nyx.net,
"andrewunix" <agreenbu.RemoveThis@nyx.net> wrote:

> See if you can find an ATI Rage 128 PCI pulled from a blue & white G3 on eBay.
> That should be plenty of card for what you're doing. It's very important that
> you get the Mac version of the card. PC versions will not work because the Mac
> requires a special ROM to be present on the card before it can use it.

Just what I needed to hear. Thanks.
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