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Dishwasher ,bleaching and elbow grease got this back to looking the way it should.
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136MB RAM
PDS 24BIT video and Sonnet g3 400 accelerator.
73GB SCA80 10krpm drive with converter
Mac OS 8,6

Quite a nice machine, even as an 80 MHz PPC 601, but even better with a G3 upgrade! I used an 80 MHz 7100 as a video microscopy station back in the day (alongside the Indigo mentioned on another thread). I also recall coming away with bloody hands after trying to upgrade the RAM on a few of those old beasties. Inaccessible RAM location, lots of sharp metal edges, and some disassembly required.

I used a 7100 when I was the university's newspaper editor (with a beat up old Club Mac external SCSI drive), running 7.6 and QuarkXPress. When I convinced the Dean to buy me a brand-spanking-new 450MHz G4, he let me keep the old 7100, which I maxed out the RAM on, added a bigger hard disk, a 24x internal SCSI CD-ROM drive, a G3 (I think a 400MHz) and an A/V card, bumped it to 9.1 and christened it the (wait for it) "SR-7100." It sounds almost exactly the spec of yours.

It's still around, but I don't have anywhere to set it up right now; the 7300 and MDD G4 handle my OS 9 jones.

By the way, I hesitate to ask why your quad has both a FX4500 and a 7800GT in it. (Mine just has the 7800GT. I couldn't justify the Quadro when I bought it new in '06.)

josehill wrote: Quite a nice machine, even as an 80 MHz PPC 601, but even better with a G3 upgrade! I used an 80 MHz 7100 as a video microscopy station back in the day (alongside the Indigo mentioned on another thread). I also recall coming away with bloody hands after trying to upgrade the RAM on a few of those old beasties. Inaccessible RAM location, lots of sharp metal edges, and some disassembly required.

Heh.. it is a pain to get to the RAM, though fairly straightforward once you've pulled the PSU, SCSI, floppy and power cables.

ClassicHasClass wrote:
By the way, I hesitate to ask why your quad has both a FX4500 and a 7800GT in it. (Mine just has the 7800GT. I couldn't justify the Quadro when I bought it new in '06.)

Well it is a dual display setup, and running a second graphics card really helped while using Maya/Blender on the one screen , and Photoshop/combustion etc on the second.
Hacked together two Apple PCI-E power cables to power both cards. The added video memory in this configuration proved to be quite beneficial.

How is heat and ventilation with those two video cards? I imagine you've got no space left, and the quad does not exactly run cool.

The 7100 is a little bit of a pain for the RAM slots, but nothing is as bad as the Quadra 800 and its derivatives (840AV, 8100, 8500, 9500). Those cases literally draw blood. I only put up with my Q800 because, with its clock chip set to 40MHz, it is the fastest A/UX workstation available, and it cost me $FREE.