List of expansion cards for Macintosh

Video Cards

NuBus

• Apple Macintosh Display Card 8/24 - 8/24-bit color, 1MB VRAM, may require sync-on-green
• Radius PrecisionColor 8-24X - 24-bit color video card
• Radius PrecisionColor Pro 24X - 24-bit color video card
• Radius DirectColor
• Radius Pivot II
• Radius Thunder IV GX
• RasterOps 8L
• SuperMac Spectrum/8 Series III

030 PDS

• Micron Xceed Color 30 - whole kit allows SE/30 to display 256 grays on original CRT, plus 8-bit color on external monitor

PCI

• IXMicro Twin Turbo 128
• ATI Radeon 7000

Compatibility Cards

NuBus

• Mac286 - provided an 80286 PC to NuBus based Macs

LC PDS

• Apple IIe Card - allows LC models to run Apple II software via external disk drive

601 PDS

• DOS Compatibility card - see Power Macintosh 6100 for more information

CPU Accelerator Cards

LC PDS

• Applied Engineering TransWarp 030
• MicroMac Speedster040 - Provides a Motorola 68040 for the Macintosh LC and Macintosh LC II.
• MicroMac Thunder - Provides a Motorola 68030 at 32MHz for the Macintosh LC and Macintosh LC II.
• MicroMac ThunderCache - Combines the MicroMac Thunder with 32KB of cache for the Macintosh LC and Macintosh LC II.
• MicroMac ThunderCachePro - Adds 4 RAM slots to the MicroMac ThunderCache for up to 26MB total system memory.

030 PDS

• Applied Engineering QuickSilver - Provides cache for the Macintosh IIsi and acts as a right-angle PDS adapter.
• DayStar Turbo 601 - PowerPC upgrade for 030 based PDS.
• MicroMac Carrera040 - Uses PDS or optional direct CPU socket connection for the Macintosh IIcx and Macintosh IIx.
• MicroMac DiiMO 030 - Uses PDS for a number of Macintosh II models but also includes Macintosh LC III and others with adapter.

040 PDS

• Apple PowerPC 601 Card - Upgrades systems such as the Macintosh Quadra 700 to a PowerPC 601.
• MicroMac Cache Card - Provides 128KB cache via 040 PDS for systems such as Macintosh Quadra 700.

IIci

• DayStar PowerCache 030 - Provides cache and faster 030 CPU for the Macintosh IIci cache slot.
• DayStar Turbo 040 - Provides a Motorola 68040 CPU. Also available with NuBus or PDS adapters for other Mac models.

CPU Daughtercard

• Sonnet Crescendo G3 - Plugs into existing CPU slot on systems such as Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.
• PowerLogix PowerForce G3

Direct Socket

• DayStar SE/30 PowerCache - Motorola 68030 upgrade card for the Macintosh SE/30 via CPU socket.
• MicroMac Performer - Provides Motorola 68030 at 16MHz for Macintosh Plus and Macintosh Classic via CPU socket.
• MicroMac PerformerPro - Provides Motorola 68030 at 32MHz for Macintosh Plus and Macintosh Classic via CPU socket.
• MicroMac SpeedDoubler040 - Doubles the speed of the Macintosh Quadra 700 and Macintosh Quadra 900 via CPU socket.
• Sonnet QuadDoubler 50 - Plugs into the Motorola 68040 CPU socket and offers up to 50MHz.

Graphics Accelerator Cards

NuBus

• Avid Janus Board - some sort of JPEG accelerator
• Avid Python II - some sort of JPEG accelerator

Multimedia Cards

NuBus

• SuperMac DigitalFilm - video editing system to be used with breakout box
• Truevision NuVista - some sort of video editing / presentation card

Network Cards

030 PDS

• EMacSE30C - Ethernet card for the Macintosh SE/30 and the Macintosh IIsi
• Kinetics EtherPort SE - Ethernet card for the Macintosh SE/30
• DaynaPORT E/si30 - As the model name suggests, this should work in both the Macintosh IIsi and Macintosh SE/30.

NuBus

• Asante MacRing NB 16/4 - Token ring card by Asante

Direct Board Attachments

• MacSnap - Attaches directly to the Macintosh 512K board to provide additional memory.
• MacSnap SCSI - Attaches directly to the Macintosh 512K board to provide SCSI.
• MicroMac Speedy - Kit which connects to the clock oscillator for adjusting the CPU clock speed. Supports multiple models.
• Mac Rescue - Attaches to the Macintosh 512K board (possibly 128K as well) and appears to offer CPU/RAM/SCSI though still a Motorola 68000

See Also

• Apple Computer

Peripheral Component Interconnect

Small Computer System Interface