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minus-squarejaschen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoRemembering the G3 and G4s had daughterboards? So you can not only change out the memory, but also change out the CPU/GPU. It was a great time to be an Apple fan back then.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoYeah! IIRC there were even daughterboards with full Intel systems on them so you could run Windows/DOS applications
minus-squarejaschen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoOh ya!!! You could swap the IBM board or the Cirrix board. Oh man. Blast from the past.
Remembering the G3 and G4s had daughterboards? So you can not only change out the memory, but also change out the CPU/GPU. It was a great time to be an Apple fan back then.
Yeah! IIRC there were even daughterboards with full Intel systems on them so you could run Windows/DOS applications
Oh ya!!! You could swap the IBM board or the Cirrix board. Oh man. Blast from the past.