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Help identifying an SE accelerator

I recently acquired My first Macintosh ever, an SE that unbeknownst to me had an accelerator installed. I am trying to find out who may have made it, or what capabilities it may have. It has no markings on the PCB save for a handwritten number in sharpie.

Seems to have an 030 running at 25mhz, but I am curious what the other ports and connects might have been used for, and if anyone knows what software might be useful with it.

I'm pretty new to Apple collecting, so any info would be great, and I apologize if this info is already available somewhere I missed

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That looks like an Applied Engineering TransWarp SE, specifically the 68030/25MHz version.  Back when I had an SE I had the 40MHz version with onboard RAM pictured below (TW1340), but the giveaway here is the part number on the stickers on the socketed chips / TW1325.

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Thanks! This is helping to narrow it down. Definitely seems to be using the same chips as the TransWarp, but none of the TransWarp SE cards I've found pictures of look like this one. It's also kind of odd there isn't any sort of screened on identifying info on the PCB. Maybe this is a clone, or development board? Probably just wishful thinking on my part.

Gonna have to wait and save up for a Floppy Emu before I can try out any drivers for it.

 
Those accelerator designs back then were more or less all the same. So it’s possible the same design got sold under a lot of different names.

Radius is one of the few who had their own exclusive hardware design.

The rest is all the same... Novy, Applied Engineering, Micromac, Quesse Computer, Extreme Systems, Total Systems - to name just a few.

 
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