[davidgerard]

One of the horribly compromised x2xx series Macs, which did 64-bit operations through 32-bit, 16-bit and 8-bit buses to save 10c on a chip. Quite possibly the most compromised Macs ever built. I used to have one, we called it the "iTurd". It could just about crawl Mozilla 1.3. We eventually just used it as an oversized desk clock.

http://lowendmac.com/roadapples/x200.shtml (scroll down past the script errors for the text)

[ek]

Ah, yes. Somehow I was fortunate enough to skip over that. My first couple of Macs that I remember getting second- or third-hand as a kid were a Performa 640CD DOS Compatible which was actually not bad at all, and had the interesting property of containing within it a 486 on a daughtercard, and then later a Power Mac 7200, which wasn't great, though at least had PCI and managed to avoid the Road Apple designation from LowEndMac.