Re: Rocket Chip - 5MHz

[Cyrus Roton <croton@ridgecrest.ca.us>]

On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, frank wrote:

> Nathan Mates wrote:
> > 
> > In article <Pine.SGI.3.91r.970830000056.19994B-100000@freenet>,
> > Greg J. Buchner <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us> wrote:
> > >I recently acquired a 5MHz Rocket Chip accelerator and don't have any
> > >docs or software for it.
> 
> Maybe not this one. As I recall, they had Rocket Chips at 5 and 10hmz,
> compared to Zip's 4 and 8mhz, but the Rocket Chips were quite
> unreliable. Not a perfect copy, you might say, of the excellent Zip
> Chip.
> 

Don't know where you got that info (unreliable), I never heard that. My
Rocket worked from day one, and still works  (about 15 years, I think is
has been). The Rocket was faster than the Zip and offered more options.
When I use an unaccelerated IIe, I am always surprised at how slow it
seems. You tend to get spoiled. My IIe has the Rocket, 1 MB mem, serial
card, parallel card, mouse, duo disk, 3.5 disk. hard disk and RGB color.
Even though I have a SuperMac, I still use the IIe sometines.

croton@ridgecrest.ca.us
Cyrus Roton
Ridgecrest Apple User Group