Mac Quadra 950 PowerPC upgrade query

V.Yakob

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Sep 6, 2023
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There is some information about it here.

For example, I have an Apple PPC Upgrade card 66 Mhz, and it works great. This allows you to run Mac OS 8.5 - Mac OS 8.6 on Quadra 950, but I didn't like how it works, too slow memory for these systems. But as an experiment - why not? :)
 

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V.Yakob

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If you manage to find DayStar at 100 Mhz, it will be 100 Mhz.
Recently at an auction in Japan, I saw an 80 Mhz with memory banks, I also participated in it, but the final price was higher than I could have paid that day.
 

Scorpio_ny

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Back in the day, I was the owner of a Quadra 950. I wanted to upgrade to PPC so I swapped the motherboard to the WGS 9150. I am not sure in this day and age if that would available and if it is, how expensive it would be
 

ClassicHasClass

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Realistically, it makes a decent 68K Mac into a poor Power Mac. I didn't find the value proposition for them all that compelling even when they were cheaper. I have one for my Q800 which I almost never use because it won't work with A/UX, which is what that machine usually runs - and I have plenty of Power Macs here.