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From: stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE==>SE/30 upgrade
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Date: 7 May 90 13:35:30 GMT
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In article <9302@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Boeheim@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu (Chuck Boeheim) writes:
>One real shock was about memory.  I had put 4 1M SIMMS in my SE before
>upgrading it.  I was told by the salesperson that the SE/30 logic board 
>came with 4 256K SIMMS already on it, so that after the upgrade I would 
>have a total of 5 megabytes after the upgrade.  (Because the SE/30 has 8 
>SIMM slots instead of 4.)  I got it back, took it home, and found it only 
>had 4 megabytes installed.
>
>So this morning I called the store, and was told by the technician that 
>Apple requires them to return the old SE board to them with 1 megabyte of 
>memory installed for them to get credit for it...
...
>Chuck Boeheim
>(415) 926-4640

Perhaps your dealer missed the Service Notice disseminated by Apple on
8/15/89 titled "NEW MACINTOSH LOGIC BOARD REPAIR STRATEGY"

(The manager of our shop tells me that this applies to upgrades as
well)

"Apple is introducing a new Macintosh repair strategy to simplify the
Service Provider repair process.  Effective August 15, all Macintosh
Service logic boards are being shipped without RAM Single In-line
Memory Modules (SIMMS).

Currently, Aple ships Macintosh Service logic boards with four 256K
RAM SIMMS installed.  However, with the new strategy you no longer
need to return logic boards to Apple with RAM SIMMS installed.

...

Do not return Macintosh logic boards to Apple with SIMMS installed.
Macintosh logic boards returned to Apple with SIMMS installed will be
returned to the Service Provider as "misconfigured modules"."

Some of that was in boldface, too.  On receipt of the notice, our shop
stripped all the SIMMS out of boards they had in stock, making a
little profit...

The bottom of the notice says "Mac Logic Board Repair Strategy
8/15/89    Read & Post"

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