>
> Scsi hard drive usually have a large 50 pin plug on the end.. if you know
> what an ide hard drive connector looks like, then you will know whether it
> is scsi or not.. the vram slot on the lcII is the big blue one.
> the LCII has a place for an FPU (68882) with solder pads.. you can solder
a
> socket into one, which Is what I have done.. but you also need the fpu,
> which William Ahearn kindly sent me, but i am unsure whether he has
another
> one, or whether you are able to solder a 68 pin socket on to the
> motherboard. trusy me, its not something you want to do every decade, or
> century :)
>
> Etienne
...Yeah, a *much* easier way to upgrade an LCII with an FPU is to put an
ethernet card (whether you need networking or not) in it -- most of them had
FPU sockets just for that reason. You didn't have to be networked to get the
benefit of the FPU. I had an FPU once, but I've since sold it, having moved
on to bigger & newer (to me, anyway) machines.
An FPU is not the 1st thing I would look to in upgrading it, unless you
really need it for some reason (3-D graphics? -- not that I'm laughing...I
actually played with StrataVision 3D for a while in the mid-90s on an FPU'ed
LCII -- "played" is the operative word here: needless to say, word
processing was the main use). But, since memory is maxed out so fast on
these critters, & accelerator cards are rare & still for some reason still
quite expensive, It is something to think of. Supposedly browsers can decode
JPEGs faster with an FPU.
MS Excell also calculates its spreadsheets faster.
I also have a IIfx -- night & day, speedwise. Save the FPU work for
*that*....7.0.1 on a IIfx compares favorably, I'd bet, with 9.1 on a G3...it
seems the faster thay get, the bigger the software bloats up to slow 'em
down...besides doing flashy new things like mp3s, which require the CPU
power, I wonder if anybody has actually *seen* an increase in their
day-to-day productivity & convenience with computing in the last decade?
--
Over,
Jutso
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