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echo: amy_tech
to: Neil Williams
from: Andy Ball
date: 2007-01-21 14:55:18
subject: Re: Life on Mars?

Hello Neil,

  NW> It's a Cyberstorm PowerPC/060 - although it has a
    > failed PPC so it's used as a plain 68060 accelerator.

An '060 would be nice.  Out of interest, is the PowerPC chip soldered or socketed?

  NW> The main flaw with the 4000, which is as true today as
    > it was ten years ago, i the slow IDE disk interface.

Do A4000 accellerators come with their own ATA or SCSI interface? 
Alternatively, could one be added via a Zorro slot?

- Andy Ball.

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