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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:35 am
by cybermook
This occured to me as I consider options. Right now I've got a PC slaved to my Mac mainly to house three Scope Cards and directly run the mixer. I'm running low on C: drive space, and I'm wondering if I were to buy an Intel Mac and move the Scope cards over to that and run Windows, whether the Scopes would work properly or not. It would be just fabulous if it did work. Does anyone have an idea?
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:41 am
by darkrezin
No - new Macs are PCI-Express only.
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:26 pm
by cybermook
Oh wow, so that would be a factor in new PCs too.
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:01 pm
by Shayne White
If you got one of those Magma PCI-E-to-PCI boxes (very expensive) and ran Windows, then it'd probably work. Then you could pretend that you're running Scope on a Mac, even though it's an Apple Wintel computer.
Shayne
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:01 pm
by hubird
What I did is I got me a 2ndh. G4 MDD dual 1250 MHz and added good Corsair RAM.
It's the last mac that can Boot with OS9(.2.2).
Try to find one that got the Apple Fan updat set, which dealt with the infamous fan noise level.
or try this, it's said to be extremely good:
http://www.pcsilent.de/en_pdet_veraxm10m12.asp
There's a lot of information on this OS and slots issue, often related to the Magma box solution, try a search here
cheerzzz
seconds Shayne, seconds
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:41 am
by garyb
there are still motherboards with isa slots made.