#3DS or SHP to DXF
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Chris,
Get the Weitek and IceCap from your dealer. The IceCap can also be
purchased directly from Velox (cost is $149).
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates
Kevin: I just thought of something else. How do you keep the
IceCap/Coprocessor in the socket in a tower machine. It seems to me that it
would tend to wander out of a vertical socket.
I can just see a new generation of error message:
Weitek 1101 error – coprocessor fell out of socket
Maybe we can start a business selling gantries for IceCapped chips…
Chris
Chris,
Orientation isn't gonna make any difference. What'll youse guys
dream up next?
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates
Kevin: Well, I've got this CPU board that sits in a slot on a passive
backplane. The IceCap is so tall (and looks so topheavy) that it just looks
like it should want to fall off the board! <g>
I've had stranger things happen. I had a tape backup drive go bang one time
when I installed it. It turned out that, working blind and one-handed
because of the location of the drive, the polarized power supply connector
plugged in backwards. (It wouldn't go in the right way, of course.) The
bang was a piece (about the size of your fingernail) blowing off of the
expoy case of the onboard microprocessor.
In a world where polarized connectors only go in backwards, self ejecting
coprocessors aren that hard to imagine…
Chris