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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: accelerators for SE
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.011154.21728@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Dec 90 01:11:54 GMT
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In article <1990Dec2.022943.5847@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU I asked about 68030 accelerators:
I've checked further, and had a few e-mailed responses.

So far, it looks as if the Dove Marathon is out because it doesn't
have FPU support. The Total Systems Gemini appears to offer what I want,
but once I've added options like floating point support, it comes to
pretty close to the Stanford price for an SE/30 upgrade.

The MacProducts USA RailGun appears to be a good product - I had 2
positive reviews, and with FPU and 4M of RAM (on a 32-bit bus)
it comes to under $900. On the other hand, reports of doubtful
advertizing practices by MacProducts keep popping up on the net.

So - one more try. A NewLife accelerator, made in Canada, lists at
$1199 with FPU but excluding RAM. If I can find a dealer who will
discount it, this could be a good deal, especially as this is a 25MHz
accelerator (the rest I looked into are 16MHz). Does anyone have
experience of NewLife / recommendations of dealers? Or, for that
matter, any more ideas about good products at lower end prices?

(I didn't have many requests for details; please e-mail if you'd
like the reviews I've received.)
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu