Re: accelerators

[jdb8042@blkbox.COM (John D. Baker)]

lone@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (John Hale) writes:

>AE still sells their putting 3.6 mHz+256K 
>"Transwarp" card for the //e, although a much better buy is (and the REAL 
>answer to your question..)

What type of package is the 'c02 on the TransWarp card?  I've got a free
slot in my //e (slot 2) and a card-based accellerator would be just the
thing to fill it.  However, I would want to install my remaining 65c802
(6MHz rated) into any such accelerator and thus I need the accelerator
card to use a 40-pin DIP package 'c02 for the swap.

What other periph-card-based //e accelerators are there?  I had the
opportunity to get a Titan //e accelerator (3.6MHz), but at the time
I couldn't justify having an accelerator and I passed it up.  :-(

>The 8 mHz variant of the Zip chip. I have one, and it runs great. Its 
>actually several chips sort of glued together: a small memory cache and a 
>jack-up-ed clock crystal. Zip tech supplies all kinds of neato software 
>to control how the chip communicates with slow slots, etc. I've had it in 
>a hot, overburdned old //e for two years and it hasn't given me any 
>trouble. Except playing games <grin!>
>                                                        -Lone Wolf

I tried a ZIP 8000 for about 5 minutes and it cratered out.  I decided
I didn't want it anyway because it was too tall to let me install my
CardZ180 in Slot 3 of my platinum //e.  I bought a pair of 65c802's so
I could run some IIgs-specific device drivers and that was a BIG
improvement...  (I bought a pair of '802s in the event I could get
an accelerator...)
 

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