Re: Installation on a LCII
"Trevor J. Mahan" wrote:
> >
> > No it's a 68030 without an FPU with only two 30 pin slots on the
> motherboard to
> > upgrade for memory. Hopefully, use two 16MB 30 pin SIMMS:)
> > No bugs in this CPU.
>
> You are definitely going to want the FPU and unfortunately max ram on
> the LCII is 10mb. You could swap out the board with an LCIII and get a
> 68030 at 20 or 25 mhz(LCIII+), socket on the MB for an FPU, and a single
> 32mb 72 pin simm would put you at 36mb total. I run Debian rather
> nicely on a Color Classic II which has the same board as the LCIII.
>
Maybe Mac's specs say 10MB is max. But is that true? They also say 72MB is max
on the PowerMac 66; but you can still use two 64MB chips and come up with 136.
If you have the two 16MB 30 pin SIMMS, it's worth a shot.
Hank
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