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NIGHT STALKER
Has anyone tested the IIsi in overclocked state with NuBus Adaper/card or PDS card installed?
The only mention I've seen so far is this LEM blurb:
Although the IIsi was marketed as a 20 MHz computer, users quickly discovered it used parts rated at 25 MHz. (Apple had intended it as a 25 MHz computer, but chose to scale back the speed to avoid cutting into IIci sales.) Chipping the IIsi to 25 MHz – or even 28 MHz – is not unusual.
The IIsi shared some 25MHz components used in the IIci such as MDU and SWIM. It also had new ASIC designs such as VIA1, RBV and COMBO that were likely designed to run at higher clocks than 25MHz in future machines. However, that does not equate with Apple having specifically designed the IIsi as a 25MHz computer and then intentionally laming its system bus speed to 20MHz so as not to cut into sales of the IIci cash cow.
I'm one of the first to imagine such shenanigans from Apple, but I've also been one of the first to doubt information gleaned from LEM. So I've been wondering if this is true and might be tested or it might be yet another LEM fable?
There's a crystal can on Apple's NuBus adapters, but I can't read the legends on the two I've checked. It doesn't appear to control the Math CoPro clock, That's a 20MHz part so it probably runs off the CPUCLK line. The crystal could be related to a similar adaptation of the baseline C16M line to 10MHz the for NuBus as was done in the 16MHz Macintoshes II, IIx and IIcx. Very curious that.
At any rate, back to the point: has anyone noted anything hinky about running PDS or NuBus Cards in an overclocked IIsi?
The only mention I've seen so far is this LEM blurb:
Although the IIsi was marketed as a 20 MHz computer, users quickly discovered it used parts rated at 25 MHz. (Apple had intended it as a 25 MHz computer, but chose to scale back the speed to avoid cutting into IIci sales.) Chipping the IIsi to 25 MHz – or even 28 MHz – is not unusual.
The IIsi shared some 25MHz components used in the IIci such as MDU and SWIM. It also had new ASIC designs such as VIA1, RBV and COMBO that were likely designed to run at higher clocks than 25MHz in future machines. However, that does not equate with Apple having specifically designed the IIsi as a 25MHz computer and then intentionally laming its system bus speed to 20MHz so as not to cut into sales of the IIci cash cow.
I'm one of the first to imagine such shenanigans from Apple, but I've also been one of the first to doubt information gleaned from LEM. So I've been wondering if this is true and might be tested or it might be yet another LEM fable?
There's a crystal can on Apple's NuBus adapters, but I can't read the legends on the two I've checked. It doesn't appear to control the Math CoPro clock, That's a 20MHz part so it probably runs off the CPUCLK line. The crystal could be related to a similar adaptation of the baseline C16M line to 10MHz the for NuBus as was done in the 16MHz Macintoshes II, IIx and IIcx. Very curious that.
At any rate, back to the point: has anyone noted anything hinky about running PDS or NuBus Cards in an overclocked IIsi?