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Re: Ultra RARE! X-Calibur accelerator for Amiga 4000, pre-production unit #5!
« Reply #29 from previous page: October 22, 2012, 08:36:51 PM »
@JimDrew

You are right, I thought it didn't inlcude any eeprom chip because I didn't notice the black eeprom so I assumed it was the 040 model, my fault, sorry!

PS:*even the voltage regulator can be observed in the daughterboard, I must check my glasses ;-)

BTW, CSMK1 is a great board :-)
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Re: Ultra RARE! X-Calibur accelerator for Amiga 4000, pre-production unit #5!
« Reply #30 on: October 22, 2012, 10:33:55 PM »
No worries!  My pics came out funny for that one.  I am not sure what happened with eBay's picture converter.  Everything got a green tint and really washed out look to it.
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Re: Ultra RARE! X-Calibur accelerator for Amiga 4000, pre-production unit #5!
« Reply #31 on: October 23, 2012, 02:50:44 PM »
The bid is at $155 with about 30 hours to go. I wonder if the value is in the utility or uniqueness?
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Re: Ultra RARE! X-Calibur accelerator for Amiga 4000, pre-production unit #5!
« Reply #32 on: October 23, 2012, 03:02:27 PM »
Well, both of course!  ;)
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Re: Ultra RARE! X-Calibur accelerator for Amiga 4000, pre-production unit #5!
« Reply #33 on: October 24, 2012, 12:37:32 AM »
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Well, both of course!  ;)


Come on Dude, your opinion doesn't count -- you are selling it!  In which case you can affect its value by saying stuff like that
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Re: Ultra RARE! X-Calibur accelerator for Amiga 4000, pre-production unit #5!
« Reply #34 on: October 24, 2012, 02:03:10 AM »
LOL!  Well, let's see... from a uniqueness point of view...  This board was used to demonstrate EMPLANT's Mac emulation to Amblin Entertainment studios that the Mac emulation was up to 4 times faster than a real equiv. speed Mac.  This meant that the Avid video system used in post production work of movies like "Cybertracker" (where I actually have a movie credit at the very end) could be sped up, saving the studio tens of thousands of dollars in studio time.

This board was also the only one that left the RCS Management's facility, being one of the five pre-production prototypes.  I do not know what happened to the other four.  Because of a few trace errors, the production model is a bit different (but still has some trace corrections).  This board has all gold pins for the CPU connection, whereas the production model used tin.  It was used by *me* for development and testing of the Mac emulation until the Cyberstorm 060 arrived.  

From a utility point of view... that thing was great!  :)
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Re: Ultra RARE! X-Calibur accelerator for Amiga 4000, pre-production unit #5!
« Reply #35 on: October 24, 2012, 01:40:29 PM »
Whew!  And I was worried about its uniqueness
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Re: Ultra RARE! X-Calibur accelerator for Amiga 4000, pre-production unit #5!
« Reply #36 on: October 24, 2012, 05:09:26 PM »
Lol!  ;)
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Re: Ultra RARE! X-Calibur accelerator for Amiga 4000, pre-production unit #5!
« Reply #37 on: October 25, 2012, 03:11:55 PM »
OK Jim,  what are your thoughts on the selling price ($264)?
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Re: Ultra RARE! X-Calibur accelerator for Amiga 4000, pre-production unit #5!
« Reply #38 on: October 25, 2012, 11:22:25 PM »
Well, that was $64 more than my BUY-IT-NOW price, so I was happy with that.

Today I dug out my special A500 and found that Fat Agnus has severely tarnished pins (green screen on boot).  Ugh!  I have piles of Amiga stuff I am going through, so it will be interesting to see how much some of this stuff sells for.
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