Re: another mystery card?

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <MPG.1b8eb5dea70476e49896c1@news.verizon.net>,
Charles  <spammeister12345@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <s98kQbaeyJz=lxnS9B850bmFmEMD@4ax.com>, nobody@yahoo.com 
>says...
>> A german friend asked my help to indentify this card:
>> 
>> http://www.hansotten.com/aiigsmystery.jpg
>
>That looks like a 16 Mhz MACINTOSH Floating Point Unit co-processor that 
>would be used with 68020-based Mac's.

There were FPU cards for the Apple II; one or two of them used the 68881.
This looks like it would be one of them.  On a IIGS, they would've given a
speed boost to any app that used SANE.  On 8-bit IIs, you would need
software written to use it.  (They often shipped with AppleWorks patches to
speed up spreadsheet operations.)

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