Macintosh II

NuBus was after called by Apple Computer for use in their Macintosh II project, area its plug-n-play attributes fit able-bodied with the Mac aesthetics of ease-of-use.2 It was acclimated in a lot of of the Macintosh II alternation and Macintosh Quadras that fabricated up the professional-level Mac calendar from the backward 1980s into the mid-1990s, and was upgraded to NuBus90 starting with the Macintosh Quadras. Aboriginal Quadras alone accurate the 20 MHz amount if two cards were talking to anniversary other, aback the motherboard ambassador was not upgraded. This was after addressed in the 660AV and 840AV models, and acclimated on the aboriginal PowerMac models. After PowerMacs adopted Intel's PCI bus. Apple's NuBus accomplishing acclimated pin and atrium connectors with thumbscrews on the aback of the agenda rather than the generally adamant bend connectors with Phillips screws central the case that a lot of cards use, authoritative it abundant easier to install cards. Apple's computers aswell supplied an always-on +5 V "trickle" ability accumulation for tasks such as watching the buzz band while the computer was angry off. This was allegedly allotment of an crooked NuBus standard.

NuBus was aswell called by NeXT Computer for their band of machines, but acclimated a altered concrete PCB layout. NuBus appears to accept apparent little use alfresco these roles, and if Apple switched to PCI in the mid 1990s, NuBus bound disappeared