Power Macintosh 9500 Computers Developer Note

Power Macintosh 9500 Computers is Apple Computer's developer note (Developer Press, © Apple Computer, Inc. 1995), 82 PDF pages, an electronic original with a text layer. It covers the Power Macintosh 9500/120 and 9500/132: the processor card, Hammerhead memory controller, two Bandit PCI bridges, Grand Central and MESH, the display card, the I/O ports, the twelve DIMM slots and six PCI slots.

Contents

With printed page numbers:

• Chapter 1, Introduction (p. 1): appearance and features (2), comparison with earlier Power Macintosh computers (4), configurations and options (5), compatibility (6)
• Chapter 2, Architecture (p. 7): processor subsystem card, ROM, RAM, cache, Hammerhead, Bandit, Grand Central, Curio, Cuda, AWACS, MESH (8–13); video display card, VRAM and monitor sensing (13–15)
• Chapter 3, I/O Features (p. 17): ports (18–22), disk drives (23–24)
• Chapter 4, Expansion Features (p. 25): RAM DIMMs (26–31), PCI expansion slots (33)
• Chapter 5, Software Features (p. 35)
• Chapter 6, Large Volume Support (p. 51)
• Glossary (p. 61); Index (p. 65)

What it settles

• Twelve DIMM slots for up to 1.5 GB of RAM, six PCI slots, and no built-in video: the display card sits in a PCI slot (pp. 2–4). Apple's Service Source and specification pages give other maximums; Power Macintosh 9500 sets them side by side.

What this document does not contain

Written for developers: no service procedures, schematics or component values, and nothing on the later 9500/150, 9500/180MP or 9500/200. Repair procedures are in Power Macintosh 9500 Series Service Source; the 9500/150 is in Improved Power Macintosh Computers Developer Note.

Pages that cite this document

• Power Macintosh 9500: models, memory, slots and display card

Download: Power Macintosh 9500 Computers Developer Note (1995).pdf