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From: pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE==>SE/30 upgrade
Message-ID: <4029.2642a023@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 5 May 90 13:42:58 GMT
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In article <9302@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, Boeheim@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu (Chuck Boeheim) writes:
> In article <9555@chaph.usc.edu> blood@aludra.usc.edu (Brian Blood) writes:
>> Ok so what happens to the other drive for us dual floppy SE owners who 
> want to 
>> upgrade to an SE/30??? I know I get one drive replaced with a FDHD but 
> what @
>> my other 800K drive? 
> 

    My girlfriend just had this upgrade done as well - from a 2 floppy SE 
    to a one floppy SE/30.  The main problem was that the dealer didn't
    seem to have ever done one of these before since they never
    mentioned that the front bezel would be replaced or that there was
    only one internal floppy connector in the SE/30.  When they
    finally did realize and asked us, we said to still do the upgrade,
    but made sure they would give us the drive back.  They did and we
    sold it to someone who was building a Mac - though anyone with a
    single drive Mac II/x/fx machine might want it also.  We got $100,
    which is about half the educational price.

    Regarding the memory, we heard that the dealers have to send back
    a normal SE motherboard, so we made sure our motherboard looked
    exactly like it came with one meg - and added another four meg to
    the SE/30 within minutes of getting it out of the repair place. 
    We're probably going to get a Kenect Drive 2.4 to add to the
    system because we miss the second floppy - not terribly - but
    noticibly.  I hate doing master disk backups on a single drive
    machine.

    Moral of the story - ask what will happen to all of your extra
    hardware and memory anonymously before you take your Mac in for
    upgrade.  Then try to bring what the dealer expects to prevent
    surprises.


    Adam 
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Adam C. Engst                                pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu   
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