[SunRescue] Weitek PowerUp Question

[Mike Nicewonger]

I myself would leave the chip in the 2. More room, better cooling, no chance
of damaging the chip.

Now what I plan to do with my spare PowerUp is put it into an RDI Britelite
IPX I have. Now that will be neat.

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Mosiejczuk" <kurt at csh.rit.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Weitek PowerUp Question


> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Al Potter wrote:
>
> > Leave it in the 2 and transplant the other components into it.
> >
> > The 2 will be marginally faster than an IPX (more hardware contexts) and
has
> > the space for a 2d internal drive.
> >
> >
> > AL
>
> But the IPX is so much cuter than the 2 =)
>
> I suppose I could move all the stuff over, I have other 2s that I
> figured I'd put the chip in, while my other 2s are all good, I
> suspect this one without a power supply has been out of service for
> some time and I'd bet it's NVRAM is dead too.  At that point, pulling
> the Weitek seems easier than moving power supply, ram ,drives, NVRAM, etc.
>
> --Kurt
>
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