Identify this Board!

[miniMOJOman]

Does anyone know what the heck this is?? I am trying to find drivers for this accelerator board, but have no idea what it is.. The S/N is blank, and it has no writing on it that can identify it.. Plus it has these odd wires and orange chip looking thing on the back side... 

 

[uniserver]

looks like a cpu / memory upgrade for an Mac Se.

 

[uniserver]

might not need drivers... might be just a pop on and go.

 

[miniMOJOman]

well i tried messing around with it, the board includes spots for 2 rom chips, so I have the rom chips in the regular board AND in this board, plus ram in each board..

Should I be removing the ram/rom chips from the main board and only using them in the accelerator?  It does boot up but I am not sure how I can tell if it is working

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Nope, gotta shut down the 68000 at boot. Check NuBus Mafia over on 'fritter and have the Duck go to Gemini+Accelerator at a rough guess. Somebody OEM'd those in 68020/68030 for several direct marketing outfits back around 1990.

 

[uniserver]

that is a pretty good question. 

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B49Tq8u-p8sKRjhwZ3l6clJkcjA&usp=sharing

dl this and run system info.

 

[sadmanonatrain]

I had a board that looked very similar to that. It was called 'Orion' by MacPeak systems.

 

[miniMOJOman]

Nope, gotta shut down the 68000 at boot. Check NuBus Mafia over on 'fritter and have the Duck go to Gemini+Accelerator at a rough guess. Somebody OEM'd those for several direct marketing outfits back around 1990.

This didnt really make sense to me.  So you are saying that I have to keep ram/rom in both boards correct?? No idea what that second sentence means..

 

[uniserver]

when you run system info, if it says you have a 68020 and FPU installed then you know its working.

 

[miniMOJOman]

Yuppers

System Info Says

Test CPU: 68020 @ 16mhz

Test Display : Built-in Video (1 bit)

Test Volume: Hard Drive

Test FPU: Software

Does that mean everything is working?? What is FPU?

 

[unity]

I have one of these. Good info in this thread. I never tried using it yet.

 

[miniMOJOman]

Havent gotten more than 4mb to work in it though... still trying to figure it out.. I know I have more than 4mb in both boards... so idk

 

[miniMOJOman]

I have one of these. Good info in this thread. I never tried using it yet.

sweet!  Glad to hear!

 

[rickrob]

Havent gotten more than 4mb to work in it though... still trying to figure it out.. I know I have more than 4mb in both boards... so idk

I used to have a Novy Quick 30 that had extra RAM and you had to use Connectix Virtual to get the extra RAM to work.

 

[rickrob]

You can find Conectix Compact Virtual 3.0.2 over on Gamba's page

http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/71more.html

 

[miniMOJOman]

Great, ill play around with it..  Connectix Compact Virtual sounds more like Virtual Ram and not enabling ram, but will check it out

 

[rickrob]

It was , but it worked with on-board memory on some accelerator cards.  It's worth a try.

 

[Mac In France]

I used to have a Novy Quick 30 that had extra RAM and you had to use Connectix Virtual to get the extra RAM to work.

I do not understand, Virtual ram is ram on HD, I can 't see why to activate real ram with virtual ram ...

I suppose this card is for multiprocessing, maybe photoshop acceleration

 

[Mac In France]

Havent gotten more than 4mb to work in it though... still trying to figure it out.. I know I have more than 4mb in both boards... so idk

If you do not get the soft to use it, it will stay in a cloud (an old one)

the principle is the same as for the PC cards on mac or Dos cards on Ap

Yuppers

System Info Says

Test CPU: 68020 @ 16mhz

Test Display : Built-in Video (1 bit)

Test Volume: Hard Drive

Test FPU: Software

Does that mean everything is working?? What is FPU?

It says FPU : Software

There is a 68881 on that board.....

ple II