"- it is rev2 board whilst so, so, so many are not.
Especially the last part is interresting for someone that wants to use a Grex in the best way."
That's probably the most _unimportant_ aspect of any BPPC card, unless for some strange reason you feel you must have G-Rex support. And who would be silly enough to attach a BPPC card to a busboard that has been known to _fry_ cards in the past. But then I guess you could argue who would be silly enough to pay $750 for ancient electrical hardware too!! :lol: All revisions work perfectly with any other busboard. (Mediator, etc) So anyone who finds value in BPPC board-revision numbers does not know much about the card to begin with.
Actually, the most "interesting" thing for me about this particular auction would be the fact that the board was originally a 040 based BPPC which has had a 060 hacked on. If you take a close look at the
colour tone of that 060 cpu you will see it is a light mauve colour. Original BPPC card 68k chips were all a much darker tone. They also had the Motorola logo printed near the top edge and an angled "half-square" to the left of that, this one doesn't. The 060 chip in this auction is not standard Phase5/DCE issue. Perhaps this is why there are no photos showing the underside of the board where the 060 CPU resoldering job could be seen! :-)
Take a look at the seller's purchase history and you will spot the
ORIGINAL 040 BPPC card which was almost certainly used in the "hack job" imo. £130 he paid for that! So not a bad profit margin there I'd say :-) The bidders should just prey that he has done a better job than in the past with the hack and that really THIS card is not one he forgot to include in one of his previous
"Spare Parts" auctions. Seems he has screwed-up the hack once or twice in the past (RIP) :-) Which is not difficult to do
If I was insane enough to spend this type of cash on an old accelerator, it would have to be in absolute _perfect_ condition, boxed, with manuals - not a dodgy hack-job! After all, these eBay-loonies are going to endup paying MORE for it than it would have cost to buy 12 years ago brand new. They seem to have no common sense!