chiptripper's finds

[chiptripper]

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.)

 

[obsolete]

Cool!

 

[chiptripper]

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.

 

[nickpunt]

I've got one of those, same load out

 

[chiptripper]

I've got one of those, same load out

I haven’t actually fired it up, do you find it offers much of a performance bump? Looks like it still has to run through the Classic bus, etc.

 

[obsolete]

Hmm, 68EC030 means no MMU. I wonder how much that actually matters in practice.

 

[KennyPowers]

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:



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

 

[nickpunt]

@chiptripper haven't booted mine up! It was a garage find, I'm not partial to the Classic so I'll probably get rid of it

 

[chiptripper]

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]

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:

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:

OrangePC 660 - Higher Intellect Vintage Wiki

The new OrangePC 660 is the fastest Macintosh Windows Compatibility Card in the history of Orange Micro. With the best price/performance ratio ever, you can have unbelievable hardware speed to run all of your high end PC applications. The OrangePC 660 speed is achieved with a user upgradeable...

wiki.preterhuman.net

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

 

[chiptripper]

A local guy needed to downsize his collection, so I dropped by. Ended up folding down the seats in my car to load up, bit of a blind purchase.

I’ve since done an inventory of this pile and I’m pleased. Contents include:

-NeXTStation Color Turbo, with display cable and NeXT Sound Box. No peripherals, unfortunately.
-Quadra 700 with maxed RAM
-SE/30 with Ethernet card, A/UX installed
-G3 card adapter for a 6100 (233?)
-Two 601 PPC upgrade cards, one being that 100 MHz Daystar.
-LC 575 board
-Sonnet ZIF G3 500 MHz, XLR8 Mach Speed G3 450 MHz
-A minty 12” G4 Powerbook
-Quicktake 100 with leather bag. Seller said it was upgraded to a “Quicktake Pro”, not sure what he meant, I don’t know much about these things.

Also a G5 tower, G4 iMac, G4 MDD with display, beige G3 tower in great shape. Several external drives (one has BeOS installed!) Tons of PCI video cards, tons of AAUI stuff, tons of LAN stuff, tons of SCSI stuff. Lots of documentation.

I obviously can’t keep most of this so will begin offering things up on the Trading Post section.

I’m happy, seller is happy, the guest room is full of Mac stuff, my wife is surprisingly understanding. Life is good.

 

[obsolete]

Wow, that's a really nice haul!