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Oh. Hah. Well, that thing is probably rarer than hen's teeth.

Ooooo, neat! What a shame no one used it. That would have been cool. I wonder if a SCSI card could have been made with high speed cache, high speed DMA, and drive access.

I was hoping the advertisement would explain what all those connectors are used for. Smaller one is maybe for additional cache?

They're still popular at banks and other financial institutions. Every LCD I've seen has a privacy filter. Although at my local bank they all face towards a large window next to the drive-up ATM. I looked, and you can see all the screens. Not very well thought out on their part.

Nice fix.

@zigzagjoe Holy cow, that CPU version is cool. Any guesses as to whether it'd work hanging off a Daystar Turbo in a IIci? Or would it only work in a Quadra?

@Snial Could that INIT also allow for virtual memory beyond 8MBs to the maximum of 16MBs? Or would that still require the hardware MMU component?

If it hasn't been recapped yet, I'm surprised you haven't had any additional problems. LCs always need a recap. The most common issue is squealing from the speaker.

Thought I'd mention that Bolle currently has 68040 LC accelerators for sale over here: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/fs-25mhz-sonnet-presto-040-lc-lcii-cc-clones.49595/

Could the IIfx version get blinkin' lights instead? :D Or if doesn't already, a HDD led header?

So ... what would happen if you plugged an accelerator into the NuCF while in a IIfx PDS slot? Sparks? Or just crashing cuz of the clock signal?

Those beads are weird. A while back I was recapping a VCR, and all the through-hole caps had little fabric covers on the legs. I don't know what their original purpose was, but they wicked up the leaking electrolytic goo and kept it off the motherboard. So that was an unintended bonus...

Some basic Googling seems to indicate that you can't use virtual memory without an MMU. Probably why even the simplest upgrade was also an accelerator with a 68010 or 68020 so they could add that MMU and utilize the full 16 MBs.

You can with some clever tricks. A few accelerators bypassed the limit by using a combination of a RAM disk & virtual memory. The software was called Compact Virtual by Connectix. The extra RAM was first used to make a RAM disk, then a virtual memory implementation utilized the RAM disk for...

@Snial I think this is really cool and could open up avenues for displays not normally used, like those tiny OLED displays. Or those 1:1 square ratio displays. That would be neat.

@MacJunky Awesome! Thank you. :D

@adespoton I don't know the name, unfortunately. Was trying to find it. I wanna say I downloaded it from somewhere.

Might be on a MacAddict CD-ROM. I've tried different variations of searching for it on Google, but I can't find anything. I installed it on all our eMacs in one of the labs where I worked. :)

@jmacz Do you think the round hole versus the original eye shaped hole will make a difference?

I don't remember what it was called or if you'll be able to find it, but there was an extension that had the "aqua" spill out of progress bars when they got to the end but didn't finish.