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Re: Will there be an ACA1240 or ACA1260?
« on: December 11, 2012, 05:40:17 PM »
I have a bunch of '040s and '060s here just begging to go into accelerator cards.  I wish Jens would produce an ACA040 or ACA060 - even A3000/A4000 versions or models for the A2000 as well.  I think there are lots of people that currently running older accelerator cards that would gladly move their existing CPUs and FPUs over to newer, more efficient boards.  You all have seen what an '030 can do with a decent (okay to be fair - 'modern') RAM interface.  Let's see a socketed '040 and/or '060 board, 256MB of RAM soldered on to start Jens!
 

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Re: Will there be an ACA1240 or ACA1260?
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2012, 01:20:07 AM »
Mongo beat me to it!  Yes, a crystal.  Looks like a bunch of solder resin around it to me - not that bad...
 

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Re: Will there be an ACA1240 or ACA1260?
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2012, 01:24:12 AM »
Geez, I don't think anyone is being made out be be a bad guy here.  I 1000% appreciate the work Jens has done.  What I said is that I would LOVE a 68060 accelerator card - and think that any manufacturer could make a few $ in the process.  I can't speak for the others here though.
 

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Re: Will there be an ACA1240 or ACA1260?
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2012, 01:29:25 AM »
By the way Don, thanks for commenting.  The more opinions and facts here - the better!  I wonder how many other long time lurkers we can flush out in the next while!
 

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Re: Will there be an ACA1240 or ACA1260?
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2012, 01:54:05 AM »
Sorry man, don't agree with you there.  I sold a ton of 68LC040 A4000's in my day and they were plenty adequate for most people then.  Still awesome today for what they are running.  Frozen in time, just like any other retro platform.  Dead?  No.