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- Path: EMBL-EBI.ac.uk!sterk
- From: sterk@EMBL-EBI.ac.uk (Peter Sterk)
- Subject: Re: Apollo a1230?
- Sender: news@ebi.ac.uk (Mr news)
- Message-ID: <Do98G0.FHt@ebi.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:11:59 GMT
- Reply-To: sterk@EMBL-EBI.ac.uk (Peter Sterk)
- References: <3146BBE5.7BF9E041@uea.ac.uk>
- Organization: European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL) - UK
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- In article <3146BBE5.7BF9E041@uea.ac.uk>, Neil Sedger <n.sedger@uea.ac.uk> writes:
- >Can anyone tell me anything bad about the Apollo A1230 accellerator-
- >030, MMU, 50mhz, FPU socket, 2 SIMM sockets, and a SCSI adaptor?
- >
- >Im being offered one (in trade of my GVP 1230-II with 4mb GVP RAM)
- >because I want an MMU and more RAM (GVP RAM is too expensive).
- >
- >The card looks a bit dodgy because the 030 chip has the writing on the
- >top scratched off !!! Now Im not suggesting that it has been clocked
- >but why else would the speed be rubbed out? And Ive heard that some
- >accellerators get very hot - my GVP doesnt at all.
- >
- >If anyone knows anything bad about this card please let me know or Ill
- >go and swap it and then find out later!
- >
- >Alternatively I could sell my GVP card (with RAM) and go buy a new
- >Phase5 or Power Computing card. Anyone interested in the GVP?
- >
- >
- >Thanks in advance for any help,
- >
- Hi Neil,
-
- I've had one for about 8 or 9 months now and it has been working fine;
- your chip is probably an overclocked 33 MHz CPU (so is mine). I've heard
- that they're identical to 50 MHz ones (cheaper to make one version than two).
- Whether that's true, I don't know. The built in SCSI interface is a real
- bonus, so are the two SIMM sockets. You can mix 72 SIMMS though i had a
- problem with a 4 MB 70 ns SIMM which crashed the computer if I put it in
- the socket in the middle of the card. Also, if you use two SIMMS, you don't
- get a contiguous block of memory, so if you need that you'll have to buy
- a large SIMM. If you can't afford that, you can use virtual memory with the
- built in MMU. Go for it.
-
- Peter
-