personal computer by Apple

Apple introduced a new case design with the Quadra 800, one later used by the Quadra 840av and two Power Macs, the 8100 and 8500 . Perhaps the most frustrating case to work with, it has three front accessible drive bays. One is for the floppy drive; the others may hold CD-ROM, a DAT drive, a SyQuest mechanism, etc.

The Quadra 800 (a.k.a. Workgroup Server 80) introduced a higher speed SCSI bus to the Macintosh line as well as accelerated internal video. It also uses interleaved memory to squeeze out about 10% more performance.

By using faster memory and interleaving, the Quadra 800 outperformed the Quadra 950 , according to the Macworld review.

Specs (via Low End Mac)

• Cpu: 33 MHz 68040
• Performance: 16.4, relative to SE; 1.31, Speedometer 4; 29 MIPS; 5332 Whetstones ; 38,216 Whetstones with 100 MHz PowerPC upgrade
• Ram: 8 MB on motherboard, expandable to 136MB using 60ns 72-pin SIMMs; motherboard had 4 SIMM slots which can be filled individually but should ideally be filled in interleaved pairs; can use 4 MB, 8 MB, 16 MB, and 32 MB SIMMs
• Rom: 1 MB
• L2 Cache: optional, PDS
• Hard Drive: 230 or 500 MB
• Video: 512 KB VRAM, expandable to 1 MB 512 x 384 @ 16-bit 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 832 x 624: 8-bit @ 512 KB, 16-bit @ 1 MB 1024 x 768, 1152 x 870: 4-bit @ 512 KB, 8-bit @ 1 MB
• Addressing: 24-bit, 32-bit
• Gestalt Id: 35
• Upgrade Path: Quadra 840av , Power Mac PDS card; Power Mac 8100 , 8500
• Adb Ports: 2
• Scsi: DB-25 connector on back of computer
• Pram Battery: 3.6V half-AA
• Weight: 24.0 lbs.
• Din-8 Serial Ports: 2
• Cd-Rom: 2x
• Nubus 90 Slots: 3
• See: Online resources and links for the Quadra 800