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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 17:53:35 MST
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- Subject: Re: HELP! Installing Daystar PowerCache card on MacIIcx!!
- References: <1992Dec31.181224.12387@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
- From: parkj@bones.et.byu.edu (John R. Park)
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- In article <1992Dec31.181224.12387@serval.net.wsu.edu> dshin@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (dongil shin) writes:
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- > I have a Mac IIcx and am thinking about buying a powercache from daystar.
- >I was calling mail order companies to get a daystar power cache 50Mhz with math
- >chip. One of the salesperson told me that I need to SEND my computer to the
- >daystar with the powercache card for installation. Is this true?
- >It is quite hard to believe this. I know that I need an adapter card for
- >Mac IIcx. I called the daytar several times, but
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- For the IIcx this is true since many IIcx's do not have a socketed
- CPU but rather soldered. If your CPU is socketed you can do it
- yourself but otherwise not. Only the IIci doesn't require an adapter
- for the PowerCache to work because it just drops in the cache slot which
- the IIcx doesn't have.
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