Re: How fast is a IIgs?

[bazyar@hypermall.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

Alfred Barter (barter@sun.lclark.edu) wrote:
: What is the clock speed of an Apple IIGs?
: I opened the sucker up and saw a crystal rated at about 3.6 MHz.
: If I ripped that puppy out and put in say, oh...a 6.54 MHz crystal
: would that speed up my IIgs?

  The 3.6MHz crystal is the serial port clock; replacing that with a 
faster crystal will just make your serial ports useless.

  I believe the main system timing is derived from the 14MHz video
dot clock.

  In short, you can't speed up the GS by dropping in a faster crystal.
You need a card like the Zip GS.

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