Brainstorm
Brainstorm Accelerator (16 MHz 68000) in Mac Plus
Dan Knight reports:
I upgraded my Mac
Plus with a Brainstorm accelerator several years ago. This
involved shipping the motherboard to Brainstorm, who installed a 16 MHz
CMOS 68000 and made a few minor modifications. This more than
doubled performance and, in conjunction with SCSI Accelerator 2.1 (with System 6) and
SCSI Accelerator 7.0 (with System
7), let me run my state-of-the-art Quantum 40 MB hard drive with a 1:1
interleave. Recommended (if still available). The only downside was
that Dark Castle would no longer run.
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