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- From: akhiani@ricks.enet.dec.com (Homayoon Akhiani)
- Subject: Re: IIsi accelerators and big video
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.162819.1766@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: akhiani@ricks.enet.dec.com (Homayoon Akhiani)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <jdsmc-221292173235@kidsnoopy.lahabra.chevron.com> <1992Dec29.130336.26543@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:28:19 GMT
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- |>>I am about to purchase a DayStar PowerCache 40MHz with FPU. My question
- |>>is how do people like them and if I decide to get a 16" or 19" monitor
- |>>later in the year, will there be enough room and power to run the monitor?
- |>
- |>I also want to buy an accelerator card (may be the newer & cheaper
- |>LogicXXXX 50MHz030 w/ FPU) and a 24bit Color w/ digitizer (e.g. the
- |>VideoSpigot Pro) in the future. And I also concern about the power
- |>consumption & heat problem in a Mac IIsi as the Technical Manual said
- |>the max limited is 7W only and the VideoSpigot Pro is 15W?
- |>
- (from what I know)
- 1st: DayStar Dualport IIsi let you plug in a Powercache and still have another
- PDS slot. How much power is avaliable there? I asked them at MacWorld, their
- answer wasn't clear! When you buy a Powercache for IIsi the sell you a adapter
- which "looks" excatly like DualportIIsi.
-
- 2nd: From "Guide to design NUbus card" (or something like that) published by
- Apple, the IIsi Nubus slot supplies 13.3W (I really don't know where you heard
- 7W)
-
- 3rd:Supermac has something called VideoSpigotProIIsi. Thats a 24bit display card
- + the normal Spigot.(they using a adapter called "0 Slot Adapter"!)
-
- As far as I know, If you really need to have Powercache and 24bit display,
- TODAY's solution is to get a NUbus expansion box (NB4) from SecondWave Inc.
- (I saw it at MacWorld, has anyone ever used one of these?)
- and your IIsi will have 4 Nubus slot * 13.3 Watt each.
-
- TOMORROW, someone might come up with a 24display card to be used by Powercache
- in a IIsi.
-
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