[DuoList][NDC] USB board for Power Mac 7200??

[JosephC22 at aol.com]

Ed,

Unless you already have a USB drive, consider getting a FireWire 400 card 
(or a USB/FireWire combo card) instead.

MacOS 8.6 and 9.x only support the 12 megabit/sec USB 1.x standard, but 
not the more modern 480 megabit/sec USB 2.0 standard.

While USB 1.x might be okay for occasional file transfers, it is quite 
slow for frequent use. In contrast, Firewire 400 will operate at 400 
megabits per second  under MacOS 8.6.

Several manufacturers support MacOS 8.6 with their FireWire cards: e.g. 
Keyspan (Part # FPCI-3N), Belkin (Part # F5U501-MAC), etc.

You can figure on spending between US$25 and US$45 from typical on-line 
sources.

Good luck!

-j

Edwin Morrow <morrow.edwin at sympatico.ca> on 12/29/04 9:13 PM wrote:

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>I want to get an external HD to save a lot of pics and MP3s to.  I want
>to know if I can get a board with a USB port for my old Power Macintosh
>7200/75, running OS 8.6 ??  Anyone know of such a board and what I
>should pay??
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