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From: acsh@crcc.uh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: PMMU (and other Mac II upgrades)
Message-ID: <3294@crcc.uh.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 89 09:33:57 GMT
Organization: CRCC, The University of Houston
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RE: PMMU (& upgrading a II)

I also bought a Mac II in 1988 just before the IIx announcement.  Because
all of my department has 800K drives (and I've heard a lot of gripes about
the FDHD) I'm not interested in upgrading the drive, but I am interested
in a speed improvement.

I spoke with Dove and they have a $1599 68030 chip running at 32 Mhz.  With
their 30% academic discount it would be about $1120.  Since the Apple PMMU
sells here for $699 (and wouldn't be compatible with the '030 anyway) I've
decided to shoot for the new chip rather than the PMMU.

The name of the 30/32 accelerator is the Dove MaraThon 030 Accelerator,
BTW.

Has anybody had any experience with this product?  

Also, in the last MacWeek, the upgrade recommended was the PMMU and MacSprint
(I think), the board that gives you a 32K RAM cache and costs about $250.
The reviewer said that these two parts will make the II run faster than
the IIx.

Jim