Re: Jay's Power Point presentation on a 1982 //e.

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

On 09 Mar 2002 07:02:15 GMT, Obsbedia2 wrote:

> << And PS, How did you boost a TW II to 7MHz?  I thought they ran around 3
> or so. >>
>
> Bart,
> 	There are rumors about cranking a TransWarp to ten or 14 MHz, but
> I've never gotten anyone to agree on how to do it, or if it's even
> possible.  The TWII that I used runs full bore at 7Mhz, or is it 8?
>
> 	There are three flavors of 8bit TransWarp:
> TransWarp runs at 3.6, TransWarp II runs at 7 and the TransWarp III runs at
> 8 MHz.  The TWIII was designed to be upgradeable to 12MHz when the chip(s)
> were ready, but the the lawsuit against the RocketChip maker by Zip
> Technology caused the abandonment of the TWIII.
>
> 	Jay

There was an article in Washington Apple Pi on how to do this. It involved
buying a faster 65816 from WDC and changing the cache RAM to larger/faster (?)
chips.
	If you ask me nicely I'll see if I can find the article and scan it for
you :)
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