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From: changwoo@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Chang P. Woo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Cheap Accelerator for SE
Keywords: Accelerator, SE
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Date: 24 Nov 89 22:23:04 GMT
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Reply-To: chang.woo@dartmouth.edu (Chang P. Woo)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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I am thinking of upgrading my SE to a faster machine and like to know
what options are.

1. I could sell my SE and buy a SE/30. (Surely, I would rather have IIci
instead, but price is the main factor for me.) I can buy a SE/30 with
internal 40 MB hard drive from the college for about $3000, and I am now
*legally* allowed to sell my SE 20 (which is officially two years old, but
the all parts except the hard drive is hardly five months old. It is a
long story).

2. I could attach an accelerator to my SE.

Well, if I choose to get an acclerator, what are my choices? I am
looking for following features from an accelerator.

a. 020 with PMMU socket or 030. If I am spending money for upgrading my
machine, I want it to compatible with future Macintoshes. Oh, 16 mhz is
good enough. I am not in market for faster CPU than 16 mhz.

b. socket for FPU. I am not sure whether I would buy FPU right away, but
I would like to keep it an option for future.

c. RAM. I have 2.5 mb RAM in my machine. I wouldn't mind buying two more
1 mb SIMM, but I don't want to throw away my current 1 mb SIMMs (120ns). I
should be able to use it directly (Radius accelerator does it, doesn't
it?) or should be able to put my SIMMs to the accelerator.

d. Price. Again, as a poor college student, price IS a main
consideration. If I can sell my SE (what would be a right price to
sell?) and buy SE/30 with less money than I would otherwise spend from
the accelerator, I would definitely go for SE/30.

Thanks in advance,
Chang
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