Yes, and though the software to support this apparently auxilliary CPU seems to
have been installed, the 486 itself isn't present. Too bad, but I didn't snag
the MAC's in order to run a '486.
It's apparenly not so simple figuring out what's installed, hardware wise,
though. Apparently there's some sort of system search facility somewhere, but
it's not a trivial thing finding it. That teensy 12" screen doesn't help when
you're half-blind as many guys my age are.
There's a program (somewhere) called "FINDER," though I'm not convinced it's for
the purpose of finding something. What I need to find out is how to find the
FINDER. Then, of course, I have to figure out how to drive it ... <sigh> will
it ever end ...
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Reed" <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?
> At 07:00 PM 11/15/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >Yes, this is a fairly comprehensive site, but, wouldn't you know it, the
first
> >thing I encountered, in looking for spec's, was that the item regarding the
> >Performa630CD clearly claims it uses a 68030 at 33 MHz, while the Apple doc's
> >and http://www.info.apple.com/info.apple.com/applespec/applespec.taf?RID=180
> >both seem to agree that it's an MC68LC040 (an'040 variant, (probably
degraded
> >... it is an APPLE product, after all ...) at 66 MHz AND a '486DX2/66. I
> >suppose the bus speed could be the rating base rather than some invisible
> >clock doubler or whatever.
>
> an 68LC040 is an 040, without the Math Coprocessor IIRC (LC = LowCost) you
> can pull the LC040 (if it is socketed) and put a full 68040 in and get a
> speed boost. the 486 chip is on a daughtercard that goes into the PDS
> (Processor direct Slot IIRC)
>
>
Received on Fri Nov 16 2001 - 17:40:15 GMT