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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Just bought a "Power Up" A3000/25-50
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References: <1991May5.003042.29062@menudo.uh.edu> <6246@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1991May14.153727.8216@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 05:23:50 GMT

In article <1991May14.153727.8216@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca> ewilts@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca (Ed Wilts) writes:
>In article <6246@trantor.harris-atd.com>, mwills@x102a (wills ms 01309) writes:
>> inciting these questions:
>> 
>> 1. What would be involved in a later upgrade from 16MHz to 25MHz?  I'm
>> told IBMers must swap entire motherboards.  Could it be only a faster
>> cpu and different clock (new crystal or is it solid state?) here?
>
>It's a motherboard swap.  The crystal is clocked faster, plus the cpu chip is
>faster and the floating point chip becomes a 68882 instead of a 68881.  These
>are not user-replaceable parts.
>
	The whole point is kinda moot. It looks like about $850
for an 040 board that will take over the bus and boost the clock
to 25MHz.

	-- Ethan

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