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| IIsi Applied Engineering QuickSilver card | |
| Posted by: reallyrandy on 2017-08-08 16:24:08 I have a IIsi with a Quicksilver card in it. I also have a Nubus adapter card so I can install a Ethernet card. The Nubus adapter I'm assuming plugs in to the PDS slot on the IIsi logic board and converts it to a Nubus for the network card. To do that I have to remove the QuickSilver card , thus no FPU. The QuickSilver card has a male PDS slot for the logic board and a right angle female PDS slot for God knows what. So, do I have to lose the fpu for a network card? How was this intended to work? Do any of you have a IIsi with a fpu and an Ethernet card? Also, How do I know if the FPU even works? Is there software for it? Thanks  | |
| Posted by: joethezombie on 2017-08-08 16:46:09 Both of those cards have FPUs on them. The Apple one is soldered on, but still marked 68882, so you won't lose the FPU. The system will automatically detect the FPU, but the software you use would need to specifically support it. There are several video and network PDS cards that you could use with the QuickSilver, but are becoming rather rare. The Nubus stuff is a lot easier to find. It does look like that QuickSilver card might have some cache memory on it, but I am unfamiliar with it. EDIT: Yes, that is cache on that card. I'm fairly certain you'd need a driver to enable it. For optimum speed, you'd use the Quicksilver card with a driver to enable the cache, and a PDS network card. | |
| Posted by: reallyrandy on 2017-08-08 17:11:02 Awesome, thanks. Now to find a driver for that QuickSilver card. | |
| Posted by: joethezombie on 2017-08-08 17:17:15 Yeah, good luck! If you come up empty, you might can try other cache enabler software by other manufacturers. | |
| Posted by: omidimo on 2017-08-08 18:35:43 Dug up the AE brochure in my data sheet treasure trove, hope it is helpful.  | |
| Posted by: reallyrandy on 2017-08-08 18:56:05 Awesome , thanks Omidomo How's the Mac Museum doing, post some pics! Now to find that Control Panel :wacko: | |
| Posted by: omidimo on 2017-08-08 19:13:36 I looked around for the driver, but since AE went out of business around 1994, their lack of a web presence makes it a little harder, check these drivers out, might have something or not. http://www.3rz.org/mirrors/macdrivermuseum/accel.shtml The Museum is growing bigly™, I needed a bigger place! }🙂 | |
| Posted by: reallyrandy on 2017-08-08 19:19:45 That's an excellent resource, thanks. | |
| Posted by: netfreak on 2019-01-03 16:13:32 If you or anyone still needs the AE Cache driver, I've archived the copy that came on a IIsi I recently bought: http://68k.preterhuman.net/AE_Cache_v2.0.sit | |
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