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From: Archangel Zeus
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
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Message-ID: <10969.2305.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 90 09:21:00 GMT
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   Ok, couldn't resist posting...
      since i dont have the original postings in front of me ill 
   summerize what i am answering...
      1) Someone asked about Memory SIMMS... compatibility and 
         prices from third party groups...
    Ans :  Nothing that i know of (ie in the $70 range of current
           Mac II memory) is compatable, in fact since Apple just
           came out with the standard themselves, it is unlikely that
           any SIMM out there now will be compatable...
           Third partys have begun to make the SIMMS and i believe they
           will sell for about $100 per meg...  i dont have 
           company names, but i heard AT LEAST one has them almost
           ready to ship...
      2) Also someone asked about the Video Cards...
    Ans :  I know that someone (again my referances are shaky right now)
           is making a third party board for the new video cards, but
           I think that it is an external plug in box.  That is, it plugs
           into the video card from the back of your Mac...
 
    oh yea, on more thing, for the fx, the max memory that it can
   have is listed as 128Mb of RAM, using the 16 bit RAM chips IBM
   (groan) is developing currently.
 
    Looks like Apple put together a winner!
 
   I dont speak for Apple, God, or even myself....