Mac II question

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Oct 19 11:03:53 2000

Carlos,

   That NI GP-IB card may not be GP-IB! I have a NI NuBus card with what
looks like a HP_IB connector but I couldn't find it on NI's site so I
E-mailed them and asked about it. It turns out that it isn't GP-IB but some
kind of data aquision card. I don't remember the model number but it's
around here somewhere.

     Joe


At 10:27 AM 10/19/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I found a nice Mac II yesterday with Natl. Instruments HPIB,
>20MB memory, Asante NIC, and framebuffer. What makes it
>special is that it has a Daystar accelerator that plugs
>in the 68020 and MMU sockets; the accelerator
>has a 68040 _at_ 33Mhz. I had not planned to keep any NuBus
>machine (I'm tossing stuff out due to an impending long trip),
>but, since I have the Natl. Instruments software for the
>HPIB card, and some other interesting Nubus DSP cards,
>I am tempted to keep it... so I thought I'd ask some questions
>to help me make up my mind.
>
>Does anybody know more about this accelerator? What kind of
>performance does it yield compared to, say, one of the later
>Quadras? Are there basic differences in the I/O and bus
>architecture that will prevent the 68040 from reaching its
>full potential on a Mac II mainboard as opposed to a 68040
>in a Quadra? Do Quadras have faster SCSI?
>
>Also, the machine has two floppy drives; how do the Mac II
>drives rank among those found in Apple machines in terms of
>usefulness/durability?
>
>Thanks for your suggestions,
>
>Carlos.
>
>
>--
>Carlos Murillo-Sanchez email: cem14_at_cornell.edu
>428 Phillips Hall, Electrical Engineering Department
>Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
>
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 11:03:53 BST