quadra
Noun
Meaning
The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.
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A Quadra can be a football field, baseball diamond or a basketball court?
Apple started using Parallel ATA (also known as IDE) for its low-end machines with the Macintosh Quadra 630 in 1994, and added it to its high-end desktops starting with the Power Macintosh G3 in 1997.
At this time, they decided to name the large island on which Nootka was now proven to be located as Quadra and Vancouver Island.
Early models of Power Macintosh and the Macintosh Quadra supported 10BASE-T via the Apple Attachment Unit Interface while still supporting LocalTalk-based networking.
FriendlyNet was first introduced on the Quadra 700 and Quadra 900 computers, and used across much of the Mac line for some time.sfn As with LocalTalk, a number of 3rd party FriendlyNet adaptors quickly appeared.
In 1775, a second Spanish expedition under the Spanish Peruvian captain Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was sent.