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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: MacII Memory Limit
Message-ID: <77800001@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 89 17:32:50 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Dec  1 03:00:00 1989


>   HOWEVER:
>   A ROM upgrade is indeed necessary for the original Mac II to use ANY TYPE
>of 4mb simms.  The only way to get this upgrade is to buy the SuperDrive 
>upgrade.  I think the Tech Note describes this as "mysterious" or something.

Is this a different upgrade from that external memory / Nubus ROM
upgrade?  That upgrade was free, if you demanded it (i.e. if you
actually had purchased a Nat. Semi. memory card which wouldn't work).

Or is there YARU (Yet Another ROM upgrade)?