... Altogether more compact than its DayStar analogue, but the Carrera card and any extra card must be installed horizontally, as with the DayStar adapter.

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Yes. I could usefully, to be absolutely explicit, have inserted 'IIsi' into 'DayStar adapter' in that post, but the IIsi adapter was the subject of this thread. Nonetheless, JDW, your point is taken.

You also read more intent to disguise into the seller's listing than I do, and I don't quarrel with that because it is open to you to do so, but I am not as much inclined to view the seller as manipulative. I bought a DayStar Turbo040 from him in March:

This is the legendary Daystar Digital Turbo '040 accelerator upgrade card for early Mac computers. It includes 128 kb cache memoryand runs at 33 MHz (68LC040RC33B) Installation is plug-and-play using the PDS slot on IIci, IIvi and IIvx. It will also work in Mac II, IIx, IIcx, IIsi and SE/30 but requires an appropriate adapter from Daystar. Plugging this card directly into the PDS slot on these machines without an an adapter or using a non-Daystar adapter will destroy both the card and the computer! These cards come up occassionally on EBAY. For IIcx or IIx machines the CPU must be socketed (removable), not soldered to the motherboard to use this card.
Check out http://lowendmac.com/sable/05/1129.html for more details on the Daystar Turbo '040.

The latest software will be provided to the winning bidder with the card.

This card was removed from a running Mac SE/30 last year but has not been tested recently (see return policy).

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I might have paid less elsewhere, by waiting. And then I might never have acquired one at all, by waiting. I swapped out the supplied LC040 CPU for a full 040/33MHz, and the IIci in which I installed the card goes like a liddle bewdy. It poos on the IIci/030/50MHz beside it (both in OS 7.6.1) according to several benchmarks in Speedometer 4, and that latter Mac has long been one of my favourites. I have already dropped a few statistics about the comparison in another thread in these forums. Just maybe the winner of this auction we are discussing also had his wits about him, knew and understood the caveats that JDW has raised, and was determined nonetheless to win the Item and use it not in an SE/30, or perhaps in an SE/30 by making his own accommodation of its limitations.

Outre pays, outres mœurs. Additionally, as paws might, however unwillingly or painedly, acknowledge: One man's Mede is another man's Persian. Or to paste even worse clichés into this post:

Bottom line is, at the end of the day, only two truths hold 24/7 in auctions: highest bid wins, and caveat emptor.

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