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- From: karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches)
- Subject: Re: Plus Accelerator?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.045742.4533@utdallas.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:57:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep13.012444.2699@spdcc.com> klarer@spdcc.com (Steve Klarer) writes:
- >A few weeks ago someone mentioned an accelerator of some sort which, they
- >said, made a MacPlus run at about 4 times its normal speed. I didn't think
- >I'd need the information so didn't copy it down. Now, a friend has just
- >asked me if I know of any way to soup up his girlfriend's Plus so that
- >he can do projects with Excel on it for school. Does anyone have any suggestions?
-
- I would get a Brainstorm accellerator for the Mac Plus. Mine cost me
- $200 installed. It is basically a 16Mhz 68000 that piggybacks on top
- of the existing CPU and one chip is replaced on the logic board. The
- logic board chip replacement lets the logic board run at 16Mhz like the
- new processor.
-
- The upgraded Plus is just over twice as fast as a Mac Classic. You can
- use hard disks at a 1-1 interleave. Video is supposedly faster.
-
- Best of all, no inits or control panels are required as the software that
- runs the Brainstorm is downloaded into non-volatile memory on the
- Brainstorm board by the Brainstorm installer.
-
- System 7 runs great on it. No incompatibilities as far as I can tell.
-
- A very satisfied customer,
- Tom Karches
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- Tom Karches |"If rap music had been around when I was a kid,
- karches@utdallas.edu | I would have become a musician instead of a politician."
- karches@holonet.net '-------------------------------------- Richard Nixon
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