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| While doing some maintenance I found a treasure trove! | |
| Posted by: james_w on 2017-01-02 12:08:29 So I pulled out my four SEs that I've never given much attention to, in order to give them a thorough check up and remove all their PRAM batteries. What should I find in two of them but some pretty powerful accelerator boards! One had an Orion, from MacPEAK Systems - an 020 running at 20mhz with FPU. The other had a Total Systems Gemini Ultra, packing an 030 at 40mhz (also with FPU)! Both of them have all gold socketed chips. Rather delightful! I'm just tracking down the software now so I can run diagnostics to find out more. I've put up photos of both over on my Instagram account, which is here: https://www.instagram.com/hypertalking/ | |
| Posted by: joethezombie on 2017-01-02 12:15:00 Wow, neat! So how long have they been sitting undiscovered? | |
| Posted by: Bolle on 2017-01-02 12:27:06 Suddenly all those compact Mac CPU upgrades pop up from everywhere. :O I suppose you already checked here for drivers: http://vintageapple.org/macdrivers/accel.shtml Maybe you can report back if you are also having sound issues with any of those cards. No matter which driver I tried yet but I can not get undistorted sound out of the Total Systems card. With some drivers the sound will work in one application but will still be distorted in another one. | |
| Posted by: maceffects on 2017-01-02 13:20:14 If you decide that you want to sell or trade for the 030, let me know I would love to have one for my restored SE FDHD that was once owned by Apple. :beige: Nice find! | |
Posted by: james_w on 2017-01-02 15:57:32Suddenly all those compact Mac CPU upgrades pop up from everywhere. :OYeah I've got drivers for the Gemini - they were already installed. The Orion card is a bit trickier but I've downloaded all the drivers. Not had time to try them. The Gemini is working great - the SE shows it has 16mb RAM!! But only 8mb of logical RAM available to the system - the rest appears as a RAM disk on the desktop. I've not noticed any sound issues - are there any applications in particular you'd like me to run to test for them? I'll post what Apple Personal Diagnostics showed next... I was rather surprised... | |
Posted by: james_w on 2017-01-02 15:59:01Wow, neat! So how long have they been sitting undiscovered?This is lame of me I know, but I can't actually remember when or how I picked them up - it'll have been at least 3 years in my home though | |
| Posted by: james_w on 2017-01-02 16:09:04 Here you can see what the system sees, and the benchmarks results etc from Apple Personal Diagnostics     (apologies for the gallery images, I can't seem to figure out how to upload images directly into a post) | |
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