Fremont, California-based Sigma Designs Inc is shipping Bullet 030, a 50MHz 68030-based accelerator add-in board with lossless data and image compression for the Macintosh IIci and IIsi: the board has a high speed 32Kb static random access memory cache, a 40MHz compression co-processor from Stac Electronics Inc, and it is bundled with the lossless compression software interface, DiskDoubler 3.0 from Salient Software Inc: for the Mac IIsi, there is an optional 20MHz Motorola 68882 floating point co-processor costing $200; for use in the Mac IIsi, Bullet 030 includes the SlotDoubler, an installation kit which features an additional expansion slot that accepts any add-in boardthat meets Apple’s 68030 Processor Direct Slot standard for the Macintosh SE/30 and IIsi; used with the Macintosh IIci, the Bullet 030 plugs directly into the system’s single cache slot, leaving the system’s three standard NuBus slots available; the 030 costs $2,000.
