Re: IIc accelerator

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <20010426234031.23983.00000024@ng-fm1.aol.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>Nathan Jedinak asks:
>
>> Is there any way to tell what kind of
>>accelerator it is without cracking the case?  I'd like to find a way to slow
>>it down for some of those games..  Perhaps there's a boot-sequence thing
>>like the IIc+ that I could use to slow it?
>
>No need to crack the case.  If it's an accelerated //c (not a //c+)
>there's only one likely possibility--a Zip Chip, running at either
>4 MHz or 8 MHz.

Another (admittedly rarer) possibility is the RocketChip, which came in 5-
and 10-MHz speeds and was a processor replacement like the ZipChip.  (I had
a 10-MHz RocketChip once...very nice, and I never had the compatibility
problems that some people reported who had ZipChips.)

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