>>The service manual I have here mentions a parity option for the IIfx.
>>You had to order it when buyying the machine, no way to upgrade.
>>The parity chip is about an inch below the FPU; if you can read the
>>words 'NON PARITY', it's missing :)

>Now the question becomes...

>Has anyone ever actually seen one of these?  (Or a parity IIci, for
that
>matter...)

>the pickle


Well, considering the parity was a BTO option for the DoD, I don't know
if the DoD let go of its machines. Probably because of all the
bureaucratic security, anything that has graced the fingertips of a
government official must be kept in storage for the next three millenia,
instead of being surplussed. No, I don't really know.

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Alan O'Neil
My Dual-Monitor Mac cost over $8,000 new! HAH!
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