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Re: Transwarp GS freezes



Kevin <kevin@hackaday.com> wrote:
> On Friday, August 31, 2012 2:44:28 PM UTC-5, waynej...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Quite a few I think. A few years ago I got a ZipGS in a box of cards
>> where someone had removed the wide SRAM sockets and replaced them with
>> narrow ones, frying a lot of traces in the process. I replaced a few
>> traces with wire and  use solder to bridge a few fried spots and got it
>> running with 32k cache. Pretty horrible. Someday I'll take another look
>> at it and maybe see if I can get it up to 64k.
>> 
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>> On Friday, August 31, 2012 11:24:01 AM UTC-7, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
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>>> It would be interesting to know what fraction of IIgs accelerator cards
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>>> have been made inoperative by efforts to make them faster. ;-(
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>>> -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
> 
> you should post it as a reminder to people that though hole plated stuff
> should never be touched with an iron if you care about the board.

It can be done as long as you are quick and gentle and gentle. But you're
correct, it's not a good "learning experience". ;-)

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon