eBay : Sonnet Quaddoubler

[alexh]

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/quaddoubler

Not mine, never seen one on eBay before. Perhaps someone in USA will enjoy it with their Amiga 040?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200920472359

[commodorejohn]

Huh, I didn't know Sonnet did Amiga expansions...looks like they just adapted one of their Mac boards, but still...huh.

[Iggy]

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/quaddoubler

Not mine, never seen one on eBay before. Perhaps someone in USA will enjoy it with their Amiga 040?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200920472359

I've seen one of these on Ebay, but it was the plus version with extra cache.
I could never get an answer as to whether or not it would work in a 3640.

And even if it did work, at 50MHz it still wouldn't perform as well as a 50MHz '060.

[zipper]

It works (not speaking of the plus), seen a test somewhere. Principally a Mac expansion, goes hot like h#ll as it uses Peltier for cooling (bad thermal efficiency) and is crippled by the slow mobo memory.

[SpeedGeek]

The Quaddoubler was designed for a Mac but also works with an Amiga.

My A3640 is already running @ 50 MHz. Also, the A3640 slow memory access problem is fixed so it outperforms a Quaddoubler.

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=19993

[Iggy]

The Quaddoubler was designed for a Mac but also works with an Amiga.

My A3640 is already running @ 50 MHz. Also, the A3640 slow memory access problem is fixed so it outperforms a Quaddoubler.

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=19993

Thanks, great work, btw.

I didn't buy the plus when it was available because I wasn't sure it would work, but I thought the regular Quaddoubler would work.

Nice to know I don't need it.

[Vlabguy1]

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/quaddoubler

Not mine, never seen one on eBay before. Perhaps someone in USA will enjoy it with their Amiga 040?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200920472359

The Sonnet doubler , is what it is.. just an easy, reliable speed increase.  Mine works great..
although not being used at the moment :-)..

Rich.

[Iggy]

It sold for $70?
Crap!
I should have bid.

[Vlabguy1]

It sold for $70?
Crap!
I should have bid.

I honestly don't recall seeing one on EBay, before this one..
Rare??

Rich.

[Iggy]

I honestly don't recall seeing one on EBay, before this one..
Rare??

Rich.

The guy that posted the plus version a couple weeks ago wanted over $300.

Really wish I had bid on this.

[bbond007]

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/quaddoubler

Not mine, never seen one on eBay before. Perhaps someone in USA will enjoy it with their Amiga 040?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200920472359

Why did they never do 060 upgraded for MAC? I guess maybe not compatible with the OS?

[commodorejohn]

Probably just because by the time the 060 came out, Apple had already started introducing the Power Macs.

[bbond007]

Probably just because by the time the 060 came out, Apple had already started introducing the Power Macs.

I understand that apple wanted to kill the 68K line and the 060 would have made the PPC machines look bad.. (because they were), but...

I mean someone like Sonnet, would have been a nice upgrade for the 68K macs and even better because the software and OS were still mostly 68K based and the PPC macs had to do a lot of emulation.

[commodorejohn]

Yeah, but it would've been a losing battle - if everything was going to be moving to PPC (as it did, if gradually,) then any such product would've been stuck with a steadily-dwindling software base right out of the gate.

[yssing]

An easy upgrade to the 040 might be this solution: http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/production-test_adapters/upgrade_motorola/