Skip to main content
Home Forums 68kMLA just found an 030 w/FPU card in a Mac Plus — #4
Post #4 by Trash80toHP_Mini
Source Forum68kMLA
Category68k
Post DateSun, 27 Sep 2009 - 19:54
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/just-found-an-030-w-fpu-card-in-a-mac-plus.18680/
Post
an 030 in a mac plus 8-o wow how fast is the 030?
Could be 25 or 30 MHz, IIRC.

The Plus/FatMac/128k Macs, if you were lucky, required only the "Killy Clip" Mod for installing an upgrade card. If you were unlucky, as I was, the Ceramic Packaged 68000 required you to solder the legs of a 68k "socket" to the legs of said Ceramic Packaged Proc, fairly straightforward, but with the soldering skills I had back in the day . . .

. . . it was a fairly daunting prospect . . . :I

. . . so I chickened out and ordered a 128k MoBo from Shreve Systems . . . it had same freakin' ceramic Proc!
vent.gif


. . . so I got the job done, (on the 128k MoBo, of course!) it was F*U*G*L*Y, but it worked! ;D

I'm pretty sure the Killy Clip is still in what remains of my MacPartsHoard! [:D] ]'>

If so, I'll take some piccies for the Photography/Documentation Thread, I doubt if many of the younger comrades have ever seen this ingenious/elegant piece of off the shelf HackWare engineering . . .

. . . or in this era of microscopic SMT, I wonder if some of them have ever even seen a freakin' socket for that matter! :?:

< wonders if he's still got that stock FatMac MoBo lurkin' somewhere amongst the toy boxes? >

mp.ls