Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
. . . begin as it looks like our resident Rocket wizard @max1zzz has already made most of the mods for hacking the Rocket down to a 7" length assembly that will fit nicely into the (rearward extended) 3.5" HDD cubic of the SE/30!
I posted this . . .
. . . and he then posted his latest twist!
Ridiculous as would beefing up the Power/Cooling budget of the SE/30 for such nonsense might be . . . what the heck!
Almost all things considered, the System 7.1P limitation of the Rocket makes it an odd fit for the SE/30 with its cached Accelerators running much higher versions of the Mac OS. However that's not a problem running it under RocketShare:
My IIsi could be running any compatible OS with only the Rocket limited to 7.1P . . .
. . . which made me rethink my proposed NuBus adapter for the bobtail Rocket:
The horizontal PDS passthru posited for NIC reverts to its original IIci Cache Card interface for yet another 040 on cached accelerator running whatever OS level compatible with the SE/30 and RocketShare.
There's an available Fast/Narrow SCSI Daughtercard for the Rocket for disk intensive ops, but the kicker would be the PhotoBooster DSP Daughtercard as afterburner for those processor intensive applications programmed to make use of it. DSP card seems to be more readily available?
Anyhoo, methinks it's time to launch Project30 Rev.6 at long last. If the "just works" in SE/30 Radius NuBus adapter for IIsi can't be pummeled into spitting out 10MHz NuBus, we've another possibility:
@Bolle has coaxed the contents out of the PALs on the logic board of the pre-NuChip first rev. Macintosh II. That's on the 68020 bus at 16MHz already. Might it be easier to coax that setup into talking to an 030 PDS than to hack a clock driven version of the IIsi Adapter's limited state machine?
Dunno, can't help but ask.
I posted this . . .
. . . and he then posted his latest twist!
Ridiculous as would beefing up the Power/Cooling budget of the SE/30 for such nonsense might be . . . what the heck!
Almost all things considered, the System 7.1P limitation of the Rocket makes it an odd fit for the SE/30 with its cached Accelerators running much higher versions of the Mac OS. However that's not a problem running it under RocketShare:
My IIsi could be running any compatible OS with only the Rocket limited to 7.1P . . .
. . . which made me rethink my proposed NuBus adapter for the bobtail Rocket:
The horizontal PDS passthru posited for NIC reverts to its original IIci Cache Card interface for yet another 040 on cached accelerator running whatever OS level compatible with the SE/30 and RocketShare.
There's an available Fast/Narrow SCSI Daughtercard for the Rocket for disk intensive ops, but the kicker would be the PhotoBooster DSP Daughtercard as afterburner for those processor intensive applications programmed to make use of it. DSP card seems to be more readily available?
Anyhoo, methinks it's time to launch Project30 Rev.6 at long last. If the "just works" in SE/30 Radius NuBus adapter for IIsi can't be pummeled into spitting out 10MHz NuBus, we've another possibility:
@Bolle has coaxed the contents out of the PALs on the logic board of the pre-NuChip first rev. Macintosh II. That's on the 68020 bus at 16MHz already. Might it be easier to coax that setup into talking to an 030 PDS than to hack a clock driven version of the IIsi Adapter's limited state machine?
Dunno, can't help but ask.
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