Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!gnh-starport.cts.com!whitewolf From: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: ZIP GS... HOW FAST? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 07:13:34 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 |">the Zip GS is much more easily user-upgradeable. Buy a faster CPU & clock |>chip, plug 'em in,..." ^ | ^ | | |-------------------------- Is this true? ----------------------| | The reason why I ask is the timing crystal on my Zip is soldered onto the | board. This makes upgrading the CPU a pain cause you have to get a faster | crystal too. Just wondering... What is the latest version of the Zip | anyway? | | Andy Kress | PYC121 AT URIACC.URI.EDU The crystal can be snipped off, there is 14-pin socket right (or was), next to the crystal, which you can plug in an oscillator. I noticed that Zip took the socket off, in the recent versions of 1.02. The only reason, I could come up with was that the socket didn't hold the oscillator very well, and you were better off soldering the sucker in. I tried it... I had to bend the pins on the oscillator to make it stay... even then it wouldn't stay prefectly still. The highest speed Zip offers is 10Mhz, 64K, split-cache. The fastest I have heard anyone having, is 12.5Mhz, 128K, split cache, owned by someone named Harold on Online America. He saids, he's a retire engineer, developer, so I don't doubt him. INET: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com UUCP: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf ARPA: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf@nosc.mil