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chiptripper

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Oh my! There’s nothing quite like buying a random lot of Mac stuff and finding the holy grail inside!

(That’s a 100 MHz Daystar 601 on an LC 630 board, of all things. Previous owner did some surgery on the heatsink to make it fit, but otherwise completely intact.)
 

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chiptripper

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Huh! An Applied Engineering TW2325. First real Classic upgrade I’ve seen, I honestly didn’t think they existed. Interesting installation method, using a PLCC to clamp onto the original CPU. I see an FPU socket, looks like there might’ve been a cache card option too?

Not much to it, very simple accelerator. I would be quite interested in cloning this, but I’m guessing AE locked down those GALs.
 

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KennyPowers

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Interesting installation method, using a PLCC to clamp onto the original CPU.

Neat find! Here's a 40Mhz Techworks accelerator for the Classic that uses the same installation method...even shipped with a machined metal clamp to hold the boards together:

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Also, I'm drooling over that OrangePC 660...always wanted that one. Did yours come with the video loopback cable?
 

chiptripper

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Neat find! Here's a 40Mhz Techworks accelerator for the Classic that uses the same installation method...even shipped with a machined metal clamp to hold the boards together:

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Also, I'm drooling over that OrangePC 660...always wanted that one. Did yours come with the video loopback cable?
So many upgrades I didn’t know about! That’s great, a 40Mhz Classic. How does it perform?

I don’t have a loopback cable for the OrangePC 660, but (and my memory is foggy so don’t quote me on this) I think the 660 and PCfx! were the only two that don’t require one?
 

KennyPowers

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So many upgrades I didn’t know about! That’s great, a 40Mhz Classic. How does it perform?
It performs very well. Here's how it stacks up to a Classic II and stock SE/30 in Speedometer after I added an FPU and a 16MB SIMM:

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I don’t have a loopback cable for the OrangePC 660, but (and my memory is foggy so don’t quote me on this) I think the 660 and PCfx! were the only two that don’t require one?
Ya, I think you only need the loopback cable if you want to use one monitor for both the Mac and PC sides:


Package includes:
  • A single 12" x 4.2" PCI based OrangePC 660 card
  • Your choice of operating system (Windows 98 or Windows NT)
  • OrangePC Video Loopback cable
  • 2 Macintosh video adapters
It's seriously drool-worthy 🤤
 
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