My IIgs machines

From: Steven N. Hirsch <shirsch_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Fri Sep 19 16:58:00 2003

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
> > Just wish the clock speed were better. Freaking Apple.
>
> I remember a lot of people doing homebrew mods back in the late 1980s to
> boost the clock speed by soldering in a new crystal to overclock it. You
> had to be careful because if you didn't cool it properly you'd burn out
> the CPU (and possibly other components).


??? I think you may be mixing this up with the well-known IBM AT '286 mod.
AFAIK, it's just not possible to do this with an Apple 2 family machine.
The video generation is too closely tied with the system clock.

Steve
Received on Fri Sep 19 2003 - 16:58:00 BST