Timeline for Why did the Apple III have more heating problems than the Altair?
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| Jul 10, 2023 at 17:15 | comment | added | Jim Nelson | More on the question about whether Apple actually advised customers to drop their Apple III units to re-seat chips: retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12283/… | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 8:22 | comment | added | Patrick Schlüter | Apple III overclocked the CPU and it also had the strange double dice 4132 (i.e. twice as dense) dynamic RAM chips. 4116 were already hot chips with their 3 voltages , doubling the density would not help, wouldn't it. | |
| Jul 9, 2023 at 3:25 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 8, 2023 at 19:25 | comment | added | Justme | Did the Altair use socketed chips? If not, they can't get loose to begin with. | |
| Jul 8, 2023 at 13:52 | vote | accept | rwallace | ||
| Jul 8, 2023 at 7:59 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 8, 2023 at 7:39 | answer | added | dirkt | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 8, 2023 at 5:35 | comment | added | rwallace | @wizofwor To the extent there are differences, I would expect them to weigh against the Altair, having to use more discrete components, and having a more complex CPU. | |
| Jul 8, 2023 at 5:34 | comment | added | rwallace | @No'amNewman I have not been able to find the ratings in watts, but I would expect the Altair would be higher, just based on the number of slots. | |
| Jul 8, 2023 at 5:29 | comment | added | wizofwor | I wouldn't consider Apple III as the same tech level and configuration as Altair. Altair 8080 is much earlier, much simpler design based on different CPU. | |
| Jul 8, 2023 at 5:05 | comment | added | No'am Newman | What was the power consumption of the Apple III? And of the Altair? I am guessing that there was a significant difference. | |
| Jul 8, 2023 at 1:42 | history | asked | rwallace | CC BY-SA 4.0 |