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After you received the upgrade you were obliged to post the old board back to Workstation.

Originally the upgrade of the Orion SE to the 'Irwin Xcelerator' was $295, circa August 1989, in February 1990 when I received one the price was $275. 3160 Bee Caves Road Austin, TX 78746 (presumably a phoenix-like resurrection of MacPeak Systems). The Irwin Xcelerator upgrade was sold by Workstation Inc. Perhaps MacPeak had gone out of business before they received my dud utilities disk. The last I saw of my Orion utilities disk was when I posted it back to MacPeak with one those 3 4 5 or 6 written requests for a replacement.

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I wrote 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 times to someone called Simon Brown at MacPeak asking for a replacement utilities disk, but this request was always ignored, leading me now to suspect in retrospect that there never was any (working) utilities software for the Orion. There were various optional extras which originally could drive the price much higher than $1195.Īlthough the Orion SE came with a utilities disk, the utilities disk I received only had a desktop file on it, no other software. By the time I bought one in early 1988 they were $795. The original price of a Orion SE at 16MHz was $1195.

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I think the Mac SE came out in the first half of 1987. The Orion SE was sold by MacPeak Systems, 1201 Spyglass, Austin, Texas, and came out in the second half of 1987. Some corrections (errors and omissions excepted): Unfortunately using a USB drive (and not having a Macintosh in Denmark) means the MacOS system files etc are not here, and even if they were on the USB they would be half missing because of the resource fork / data fork format (unless I copied them as. I still have most (all) of my correspondence with the makers of the Orion/Irwin in disk (text) files, which I carry around with me on a 64GB USB, along with most of my other correspondence and files going back to 1981. I think Apple and other firms made a special heavy duty replacement SE power supply, maybe 120 or 125 Watts ? These beefed up power supplies are probably quite scarce.

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There is also at least an Irwin users manual (which I should still have ?), and almost certainly an Orion installation manual.īeware though the standard power supply in a Mac SE is 100 Watts, and installing an accelerator in an SE increases power consumption, and that can reduce the life expectancy of the power supply. Some application software needed the cache disabled for that software to work. 65ns 80ns 100ns etc, you could also adjust the processor and co-processor speed settings, eg 25Mhz, 20Mhz, 16Mhz, 8Mhz, you could also adjust the (processor) cache size, or turn off the (processor) cache entirely. With the Irwin utilities (but not the Orion utilities ? unsure) you could adjust the setting for RAM speed, eg. All that gear is in Australia, and I am in Denmark, but I should return to Australia in mid-November - if you want to follow this up. I also think I have the Irwin utilities programme file (something like a Control Panel device ?) on a Mac CD-ROM I had made (at some expense, by a bureau, back in about 1999). I definitely still have the Irwin utilities disk, but I am not sure about whether I still have the Orion utilities disk. I suspect both the Orion and the Irwin had associated (but distinct) utilities diskettes (3.5' 800K). Owners of the Orion could upgrade to the Irwin relatively cheaply for about $300. They then discontinued (or renamed) the Orion and sold the next version as the Irwin accelerator. MacPeak Systems, Spyglass, Austin, Texas originally sold these cards for the SE as Orion accelerators (from about 1988 onwards).