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| can anyone identify this board? | |
| Posted by: Verault on 2018-04-27 06:47:14 Someone offered me this board for sale but I dont know what it is or what it goes to, can you guys help me figure out what it is?  | |
| Posted by: Byrd on 2018-04-27 06:58:32 Quick post before bed - some sort of SE accelerator (missing CPU and FPUs)? | |
| Posted by: Verault on 2018-04-27 07:00:19 That was my thought (se upgrade board) question is would the cpu/fpu be difficult to find? | |
| Posted by: bibilit on 2018-04-27 07:08:03 Same unit as this one apparently | |
| Posted by: Verault on 2018-04-27 07:21:32 Thanks Bibilit, that must be it! Questions is can I find the cpu and fpu? | |
| Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2018-04-27 07:25:25 Very easily: 68030/25 CPU: https://www.ebay.com/itm/152865317115 68882/25 FPU: https://www.ebay.com/itm/192353680603 | |
| Posted by: Verault on 2018-04-27 07:29:34 Man you guys are good, thanks! I think ill buy the board for my SE! | |
| Posted by: Verault on 2018-04-30 07:05:07 Does it have to be a MC68030RC25B ?: 68030/25 CPU: https://www.ebay.com/itm/152865317115 I am seeing a bunch of listings for MC68030RC25C Would the C revision of the CPU be compatible as well (cheaper price) https://www.ebay.com/itm/162851062700 | |
| Posted by: MOS8_030 on 2018-04-30 07:16:36 Any '030 that is 25Mhz or faster should work. | |
| Posted by: Verault on 2018-04-30 09:14:47 ok, well i bought the fpu and cpu on ebay. Ill post back if they work ok. so how does the RAM work? Do I just leave the 4MB ram I have in my se as is and install the board or do I move my system ram to this new board? The other posting seems to say that the ram on the upgrade board can be used as a ramdrive. Is that its only purpose? | |
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2018-04-30 09:41:54 IIRC it's limited to that. You'll be using system memory on the MoBo. Dunno what drivers they used and how it worked, but RAMDisk+(?) worked great for me back in the day for reloading an image from HDD automagically into a RAM disk after a powerdown. | |
| Posted by: Verault on 2018-05-08 14:22:54 I am hoping you guys can help me with something else. I have the board and fpu/cpu installed on it and have it in my SE right now, but I dont have a modern MAC and the only drivers I seem to find are in .SIT or .HQX format. Can someone point me to a gemstart disk image (.dsk)? or maybe uncompress them and emaill them to me? here is the driver:http://www.3rz.org/mirrors/macdrivermuseum/accel/gemstart3.sit | |
| Posted by: Verault on 2018-05-10 16:50:24 Any help would be really appreciated. I was looking into ciderpress but I guess thats meant for apple II disks. IS there a program someone could recommend that I could created macintosh Disk images (.DSK files) thanks, | |
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