--- On Mon, 6/8/09, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think I've ever thrown away a working and/or
> interesting Mac, so
> I doubt this one would be any different. Especially knowing
> now that it
> may be a somewhat odd or special setup. The only thing that
> makes me
> wonder is I'm 99% sure it was still a 68030, but the
> Tokamac upgrades
> look to be 68040 upgrades.
A stock IIfx was a 40Mhz 030, comparable to the rather rare 40Mhz 80386DX with
matching 40Mhz 80387 math co-processor.
The reason the TokaMac upgrade needs all those wires etc is because not only
was that Mac odd in using the special 64pin RAM, Apple made the bizarre
decision to not fully connect the PDS to the NuBus, making the PDS nearly
useless. A TokaMac upgraded IIfx is a huge hardware bodge and hack.
It just proves that anything a computer company tries to stop hackers from
doing, a hacker can find a way to do! :)
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