Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:11:05 -0700 From: "J.S. Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That appears to be a Daystar for an LC, because of the 16Mhz. 68030. It's lying flat, so it HAS to be for the LC. If you don't have a spare LC around, I'd take it and test it out for you. ;^)
I don't really have any interest in the LC, so I may take you up on that. There are two obstacles. First, I have an email in to the second bidder, so if he wants it, I'll let it go to him. But I haven't heard back. I'll wait a bit.
Second, I have this fantastical ambition to map out the connections and decode the PLDs on as much of the Daystar stuff as possible. Clearly, this isn't doable on the upgrades that have a big VLSI chip, but things like the early Turbo040 with just a bazillion small PLDs it could be feasible for and certainly for the various Mac II and SE/30 adapters that allow installation of the Turbo040 or PowerCache.
This ambition makes me want to hold on to one example of each thing Daystar that I find. But, realistically, I don't know when I'll even start such a project. And as I said, I don't really care about the LC. And even if I got going on it, I find it hard to imagine that I'd run out of projects to the point where I'd be craving that LC upgrade to tinker on.
Anyway, I'll wait until I either hear from the other bidder or a reasonable time has passed without a reply. If I forget about it, feel free to email me again.
I wonder what happens to the old design documents for all these old upgrades. Do you think they're just destroyed? Or are they moldering in someone's garage somewhere. For example, it would be great to have the RTL for the big chip on the Micron video boards or even the GDSII or whatever they were using back then.
Jeff Walther
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