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The 4400 was one of the first CHRP-type boxes. They used a Motorola made motherboard and usually had board headers for parallel and PS/2. The same board (or at
by 65a 14y ago
The 4400 was one of the first CHRP-type boxes. They used a Motorola made motherboard and usually had board headers for parallel and PS/2. The same board (or at least a variant) was used in Motorola StarMax machines, which were quite powerful for their price, except for the 40mhz system bus. I had a "PowerCity" which was an illegal clone made from leftover Motorola parts after the Jobs decision. It was a great machine, and it was nice to have a PS/2 port on mac at the time!
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoI remember it well. There was a lot of talk about CHRP, but in the end, Apple released no Macs that were fully based on it. The 4400 had the same Apple designed Tanzania motherboards [1] as Motorola used in some of their StarMax machines [2]. Those boards had support for commodity PC ports like PS/2 and parallel, as well as Apple's ports. The Power Macintosh 4400 did not have parallel or PS/2 connectors. It had ADB and GeoPort serial ports [3]. I considered getting a 4400, but I ended up spending a little more on a 7300, which was a way better computer. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20010726184243/http://www.macuser.com/mu_0996/news/news06.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010726184243/http://www.macuser... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarMax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarMax [3] http://www.forevermac.com/1997/02/performa-4400160mhz-computer/ http://www.forevermac.com/1997/02/performa-4400160mhz-comput...