Delayed reaction conquest

#1 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 - 15:30

DayStar Digital PowerCache Card

33 MHz 68030 for Macintosh IIci

This probably came riding along with one of the IIci's from the recycler over the past few months. Just noticed it.

* or maybe from some dead IIci's Travis brought. Not sure. It's cool either way.

#2 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 - 15:32

More from the same IIci:

SuperMac "Image Processing Accelerator" NuBus video card

Big Ass 3COM Ethernet NuBus card

#3 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 - 15:39

And now for an anti-conquest.

Another IIci, with a blown up battery. Ruined motherboard. Case is very yellowed (worthless). Good hard drive though, maybe the PSU.

RIP

#4 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 - 10:11

I assume that SuperMac card has a DSP or two on it?

Nice.

#5 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 - 11:20

Should be the standard dual DSP card sold by supermac (Dual AT&T DSP16A's, board labled SCNB-1) which is just a private labeled Storm Technologies card.

The powercache card is cool, the only IIci accelerators I have found were 040 ones, there were quite a few 030 ones.

Also nice on the 3com ethernet card, not exactly a common one.

One of the things I would have liked to do was collect 020 and 030 upgrade boards for compacts, but those are getting very very hard to find, there was such a huge market for 3rd party upgrades back then and it all collapsed in the early 90's.

#6 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 - 18:56

DayStar Digital PowerCache Card33 MHz 68030 for Macintosh IIci

This probably came riding along with one of the IIci's from the recycler over the past few months. Just noticed it.

I thought the PowerCache card was in one the IIci's I dropped off last time... or maybe you have an additional one lurking in your warehouse?

#7 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 - 19:57

DayStar Digital PowerCache Card33 MHz 68030 for Macintosh IIci

This probably came riding along with one of the IIci's from the recycler over the past few months. Just noticed it.

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I thought the PowerCache card was in one the IIci's I dropped off last time... or maybe you have an additional one lurking in your warehouse?

It may have been. All of the IIci's were rounded up into one stack for testing, so I wasn't sure of the origin; most of them came from the recycler though.