Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:53:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregg Eshelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The problem is that nobody on this list has ever seen a real "live" PowerCache adaptor for the Classic, Color Classic, SE or LCIII. All of those are on the front of the manual with "Refer to the installation manual received with your adaptors."
I have at least two of the adapters for the Color Classic, LC, LCII and corresponding Performas. I had ten of them but managed to sell the other eight on Ebay.
As far as I can tell, they will only work with the PowerCache and not the Turbo040. Electrically, they would probably work with either, but if you try to use the adapter with a Turbo040 in an LC style machine, the Turbo040 circuit board extends too far to the rear of the case. I don't know what the situation would be in the Color Classic.
I bought the adapters from Shreve during their "Going out of Business Sale". I thought I was also getting ten Turbo040s so I wanted to have a variety of adapters on hand that I could sell with the Turbo040s. However, it turned out that seven of the Turbo040s were actually Value040s and so the adapters became mostly useless to me.
On the other hand, the Value040 is worth hunting for if you're interested in upgrading the above listed machines (mine are all gone). The Value040 is basically a Turbo040 reworked into a card that plugs directly into the LC style 16 bit slot without adapters. So it fits nicely in the LC, LCII, CC and related Performas without any additional adapters.
Hmmm, let's see....If you go to <http://www.io.com/~trag> and look at "LCadapterBox.jpg" and "LCadaptercard.jpg" I still have the scans up that I was using on Ebay. For the Value040 there's "Value040_cache.jpg" and "Value040i.jpg".
I have not seen an adapter for the SE nor the original Classic though. Those may well be mythological.
Jeff Walther
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