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From: mmaston@portia.Stanford.EDU (Michael Maston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: questions about newly announced hardware
Message-ID: <10494@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Mar 90 01:51:33 GMT
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In article <1879@esquire.UUCP> baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes:
>In article <1872@esquire.UUCP>, yost@esquire (David A. Yost) writes:
>>Could someone at Apple tell us:
>>
>>1.  If you use the new 8-24 GC card in 1-bit mode, do you still get
>>    the benefit of QuickDraw acceleration, and if so, about how much?
>
>Also, if you buy the 8*24 card, can it be upgraded to an 8*24 GC card?

No.  According to the latest MacWeek I read (3/20) you can upgrade by adding
memory from the 4*8 to the 8*24, but there is no upgrading to a GC.

Sorry.

Mike




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