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From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Update 030 boards for more Mhz
Message-ID: <08275.AA08275@babylon.rmt.sub.org>
Date: 3 Jun 91 12:19:51 GMT
References: <lynx.4974@amiglynx.UUCP>
Reply-To: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
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In article <lynx.4974@amiglynx.UUCP>, lynx@amiglynx.UUCP
(Dario Fernando) writes:

> accually I did get a reply it was   NO   I don't need a
> NO I need an answer.

Your question was whether or not a 28MHz GVP '030 can be
upgraded to 50MHz. So "no" _is_ an answer. No matter how
often you will ask, the answer will remain the same!

> I have a GVP 28 mhz plain with no memory or nothing, can I
> go up to 33 or 50 mhz by changeing the 030 in the crystal
> and a fast memory?

No.

> my view is that I think I can by putting a 50 mhz 030 ,
> change the crystal and adding a memory of 60 or 70 ns , AM
> I WRONG OR WHAT.

Yes. You also need lots of new PALs.

> I think it can be done by buying the new GVP serial 2 030
> scii 22mhz and then expand up to 50 it cost only $350.00
> for a 50mhz chip I don't care for the MMU I don't need it
> for grafics.

Good luck! Almost everything is surface-mounted.

Ralph