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Thog Starting Member USA 9 Posts	Posted - 20 Oct 2002 : 22:11:14 A ways back, I picked up a "Macintosh II accelerator and adaptor" off of eBay for $10. All I could tell is that it was Daystar and was pulled from a II. When I got it, I looked - a universal powercache, 40Mhz with the FPU. I stuck it on the pile to play with later. Today I "found" it again, and decided to try it in one of the II's. I downloaded the "Power Central" control panel and transferred it to the II that had IIx ROMs and both 800K and 1.4 floppies. I popped out the 16MHz '020, and the Apple MMU. Then I put the adaptor board in (it plus into both the CPU and MMU sockets), plugged in the Daystar board, and booted up. Success! The control panel reported a 40MHz CPU (as expected) with 32K of cache and the FPU. A quick run with speedometer gave me a reading (under 7.1) of 70% of a Q605 for CPU, 400% for FPU, 106% for disk (using a 5.25" 160M drive!), and 50% on video. (Not surprising on that last score, it's the "high res" 8-bit 640x480 card. I'll try something with a bit more speed later.) Cool find for $10, methinks. I now have a "stock" Mac II, and one that is way faster than originally intended. Thog save over 30 68k macs! Thog good boy!
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 20 Oct 2002 : 22:21:29 quote: A ways back, I picked up a "Macintosh II accelerator and adaptor" off of eBay for $10. All I could tell is that it was Daystar and was pulled from a II. When I got it, I looked - a universal powercache, 40Mhz with the FPU. I stuck it on the pile to play with later. Today I "found" it again, and decided to try it in one of the II's. I downloaded the "Power Central" control panel and transferred it to the II that had IIx ROMs and both 800K and 1.4 floppies. I popped out the 16MHz '020, and the Apple MMU. Then I put the adaptor board in (it plus into both the CPU and MMU sockets), plugged in the Daystar board, and booted up. Success! The control panel reported a 40MHz CPU (as expected) with 32K of cache and the FPU. A quick run with speedometer gave me a reading (under 7.1) of 70% of a Q605 for CPU, 400% for FPU, 106% for disk (using a 5.25" 160M drive!), and 50% on video. (Not surprising on that last score, it's the "high res" 8-bit 640x480 card. I'll try something with a bit more speed later.) Cool find for $10, methinks. I now have a "stock" Mac II, and one that is way faster than originally intended. Thog save over 30 68k macs! Thog good boy! OOOO Put 6.0.7 on it and tell s how fast it goes! -danny ############# #**********# #=========# #=Hockey!=# #=========# #**********# #############
Thog Starting Member USA 9 Posts	Posted - 27 Oct 2002 : 01:03:34 Why 6.0.7? Why not 6.0.8? (I'll be happy to. I'd love to compare that to my accelerated IIfx, which should really rock System 6. ) Thog save over 30 68k macs! Thog good boy!
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 28 Oct 2002 : 04:26:30 Do it! -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 28 Oct 2002 : 06:13:40 quote: Why 6.0.7? Why not 6.0.8? (I'll be happy to. I'd love to compare that to my accelerated IIfx, which should really rock System 6. ) Thog save over 30 68k macs! Thog good boy! I'm used to 6.0.7 on my LC so just habit i guess anyways the only difference is printer drivers. -danny ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
Hikaru Starting Member 16 Posts	Posted - 30 Oct 2002 : 04:38:01 sweet, I stumbled upon a free Apple II card and 5 inch floopy drive recently, I plan on putting it into my 610cd or into my IIcx Commodore Covert Ops 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 14 PB 170, SE x4, SE/30, classic II, IIcx x2, IIsi x2, LC. LC III, Performa 575, 600cd, Newton MP110 x2 END OF LINE _
scchicago Full Member USA 936 Posts	Posted - 30 Oct 2002 : 15:34:27 quote: sweet, I stumbled upon a free Apple II card and 5 inch floopy drive recently, I plan on putting it into my 610cd or into my IIcx 5"!!!! WOW! _________________ Leutennant SCCHICAGO HotLine:scchicago.homeip.net Website:http://scchicago.homeip.net Forum: http://scchicago.homeip.net/forum

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