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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: MacII Memory Limit
Message-ID: <3357@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 1 Dec 89 21:29:27 GMT
References: <77800001@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <77800001@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>>   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).


No, as the message above stated this is not the free external memory upgrade
but rather the ROM upgrade which comes when you buy your Mac II one of
Apple's nifty FDHD SuperDrives, which allows you to read and write 1.4 Mb
disks and IBM-formatted disks, among others.




  -- Mark Wilkins
     wilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu