[q] Identify Old Daystar Upgrade
It's a pity the pics don't reveal so much. All I can say is that Daystar offered quite a range of upgrades/accelerators at the time and that the control panel you can still download from AppleFritter at http://www.applefritter.com/node/4686 covers the Turbo 040, Turbo 040i, Image 040, Quad 040, Value 040, Value 040i and FastCache Quadra. DayStar Quad 040 Accelerator seems to have been the name of this CDEV/Control Panel. The designation Quad 040 seems redundant if it wasn't meant for a speed upgrade for Quadras running at 25 or 32 MHz. Maybe the article in question is just that, I don't know. The interesting suggestion by Chris that it could be sort of an AV upgrade is erroneous IMHO as presumed DSPs alone don't make the difference - where are the ports? Video in/out, RCA jacks for the sound? And the DSP on the 840 AV mainboard here (ATT 3210) doesn't look very much like the chips on the board shown. I'm puzzled, anyway, as I believed the DSPs were by TI. But I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me can clear this up. Cheers, OM -- /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:quadlist@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: [q] Identify Old Daystar Upgrade
I have been following this and other discussions from afar; time to weigh in with my FIRST POST! Better make it a good one. I have one of these Daystar cards, and so have had reason to do a little digging and can fill in the blanks. It is a Daystar Quad 040 running at 40 MHz with a 128k SRAM cache, and works in the Quadra 610, 650, 660av, 700, 800, 900 and 950 (the 610 and 660 required, so far as I know, a Slotsaver adapter - which plugged right into the cpu socket and so left the one pds expansion slot in the 610 and 660 free). The card brings any of these machines up to the level of a Q840av (40 MHz). Yes, there would have been a point in buying one of these c.1993. But it's not (in itself) an AV card, and there are no DSPs. Daystar, however, clearly had the av machines in its sights. Though there are no DSPs (presumably what have been identified are just the cache chips), what there is is a smallish QUIC (Quadra Universal Interface Connector) slot, to which can be plugged a Daystar Charger QUIC daughter card, which does have twin DSPs. It plugs onto the side of the card, very like the daughter card for, say, the Radius Thunder IV card. I don't have a QUIC daughter card, so I can't speak about it first hand, but Daystar advertised that the two cards together would boost a non-av mac like the 700 to run around 30% faster than the 840av. It runs beautifully under OS 7. Haven't tested it with OS 8. Does not work happily with A/UX, though I have had it running under A/UX on my Q950. The trick is to do the A/UX installation with the card installed, and not to put it in later. But since it makes A/UX rather cranky, there's not much point, really. There is a reference (from whch some of this is taken) in _Upgrading and Repairing Macs_, Que publishing, 1994, pp.604-5 if anyone's really keen. Gary -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:quadlist@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: [q] Identify Old Daystar Upgrade
In a message dated 6/9/05 11:01:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=4604item=5206968963rd=1 Its got me confused but I am Very curious what it is also. Chris -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:quadlist@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: [q] Identify Old Daystar Upgrade
It appears to have 2 DSPs on it. Maybe its an upgrade to Quadra 840AV standards for older Quadras? Chris -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:quadlist@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
[q] Identify Old Daystar Upgrade
Anybody recognize this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=4604item=5206968963rd=1? It looks like it plugs into a Quadra PDS slot, but it also appears to have a 68040 chip on board. So what would be the point? Jeff Walther -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:quadlist@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
