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#Best value IIcx upgrade

    21-Apr-95 23:17:42
Sb: #Best value IIcx upgrade
Fm: Michael Frank 70642,3140
To: Greg Erickson <DayStar> 75300,1544
I'm looking for economical upgrade for my IIcx to keep it alive for another year. I currently have 8 mb ram, 300 mb hd, and am running sys 7.5.1 with ramdoubler. My questions: 1. Does Daystar still produce '030 accelerator cards, and do any of them work with a IIcx? (I have seen '030 cards still advertised, but are they really still around?) 2. With either '030 or '040 accelerator cards, is the IIcx resident fpu disabled if the card has no fpu, or do floating point operations just not get accelerated? That is, in order to run fpu-dependent software, am I forced to get a card with fpu? 3. On either type of card, what is the power requirement? I currently am running two video cards, so using both of those and an accelerator might be stretching the limits of the IIcx power supply. Daystar folks: feel free to reply via email if that allows you to answer my questions more fully. Thanks for the help. Michael R. Frank