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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: want advice re 512KE upgrade
Keywords: SCSI,upgrade,512K
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.022813.2394@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 21 Mar 90 02:28:13 GMT
References: <1990Mar19.161711.15575@uncecs.edu>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <1990Mar19.161711.15575@uncecs.edu> jae@uncecs.edu (Jeff Ersoff) writes:
>
>We want to upgrade a 512KE to a 2meg SCSI machine. We could pay our local Apple
>dealer $800 to make it a 2 meg Plus, $680 for a Dove upgrade or send the logic
>board to Peripheral Outlet to be upgraded for $475 
>
>Do you have any recommendations? Any other alternatives to suggest?

I would personally sell it and buy a Plus.  I know this is tough to accept
(I own and use a 512e myself which I hope to replace soon).  Think about
it, though.  At educational discount, you can get a NEW Mac Plus for about
$900-$1000.  Buy a couple 1 MB SIMMS and you've got a 2.5 MB machine with 
SCSI for $1080 or so.  Now sell your 512e for $400-$450.  Now you have a NEW 
machine for about $600-$680 (complete with Apple's new 1 year warranty).

I think this makes infinitely more sense than pouring good money into a 
3 or 4 year old machine with questionable power supply, aging mouse and
keyboard (all these are dying on my 512e, and most of the other machines
this age that I've seen)....

One man's opinion :-)

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