On Monday, December 27, 2021 at 10:11:01 AM UTC-5, Louis Ohland wrote:
MAJ Tom, searching the Tool for Hypertech results in ZERO, NADA, NO
hits. Why is that?
I misspelled it, goes by HyperTec and HyperRace:
https://ardent-tool.com/CPU/8570_DX33_Upgrade.html
"Gung-ho! You can't wait to get it working with a 8580 and a 386, so slap
on a Hypertech! Add on some extra signal tomfoolery, what could go wrong?"
LOL, So the backstory on that... I picked up two 8580's about two years ago with HyperTech's in them for $50 total in Newburgh NY. A guy saved them from a dumpster and threw them on craigslist. These were the pics from the craigslist ad
https://imgur.
com/a/LTewJ8V I don't have the original 386 chips they came with, but I've thought about trying to find an original. Anyway the guy didn't know what he had, one of them had an audiovation in it.
So flash forward, the thread in this group: "Pretty sure I killed a 8580 20mhz planar" spelled the death of a planar in one of them. I'm still embarrassed about it, I never got it to run again. I really like the platform for nostalgic reasons and I
ended up with a Reply TurboBoard with a nice modded Dallas chip from eBay that used to belong to Greg Frantz, you can search for his posts in this news group concerning this board. It was the last Reply Board to pop up on ebay and while it was steep, it
came with the manual, everything I needed, a very nicely modded Dallas chip, 56MB of RAM, and POD 83mhz. Those are getting priced rather high these days now.
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