Re: Popular Science

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Supertimer wrote:

> It will work, but the trick is getting the IIGS and its accelerator card
> down to the lower temperatures.  I doubt the IIGS was built for this
> type of cooling, so if you try to use dry ice to cool it, the solder joints
> would probably crack.  However, I would like to try taking a IIGS
> with a TransWarp GS out into the patio in the dead of winter when
> the temperatures are -4 degrees C or lower and trying out faster
> oscillators.  I'll bet it will run faster than any GS ever ran.  ;-)
>
> It should be possible to go AT LEAST 20Mhz, the speed the WDC
> chips CAN go, as proven by CMD's Commodore accelerators.
> The lower temperatures will just make the OTHER chips on the
> TWGS perform better and let the 65C816 realize its potential.
>
> And this, by the way, is what Ronald must be asking because I've
> answered a few TWGS questions raised by him....he's thinking
> about cooling his TWGS!

Might be better to just put the cpu itself out ant keep the rest
inside. I don't know what the lowest temperature the monitor
works at but I'm reminded that a few years ago I took a IIgs
out to the prairies in winter.  -30 outside, took about an hour
after bringing the monitor indoors before it would run.

In my ZipGS while upgrading I noticed if the static ram was a
bit too slow it would crash after it warmed up, point a fan at it
and it would last longer. There might be some value in
modifying a small bar fridge to hold a gs cpu.

      Wayne