cullip@sargent.cs.unc.edu (Timothy Cullip) (06/26/91)
I have both a LUCAS (with 68020 and 68881) and a FRANCES (with a full 4 Mbytes) that I would like to sell. Both have worked in an A1000 and in an A500 motherboard (but won't fit in an A500 case). LUCAS: $250 FRANCES: $250 LUCAS/FRANCES as a pair: $450 The pair together can really make an A1000 shine (over five times the speed of a stock A1000), but a LUCAS by itself (without the FRANCES) isn't nearly as powerful (just a warning). I'm in no hurry to sell them so I'm not real eager to haggle on the prices. I would like to sell them to someone who knows his way around hardware because the LUCAS design in general is not the most user friendly (often requires effort to get it up and running in an A1000 - things like trying various speed 74?74's in one IC socket on the LUCAS to get the timing to agree with your A1000, often requires grounding of the A1000's PALs to get the noise down, etc). For example the A500 and A1000 required different 7474's to make it run (I will provide lots of diffent speed 74?74's with the board and crystals ranging from 12 MHz to 18 MHz). Both the LUCAS and FRANCES come with disks describing them (original TRANSACTOR articles, debugging and testing hints, software, etc). Tim Cullip cullip@cs.unc.edu -- Tim Cullip cullip@cs.unc.edu