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From: fjo@mtcchi.uucp (2667-Frank Owen(ZG90210)0000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: '030 upgrade for Mac+(repost)
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.182805.16321@mtcchi.uucp>
Date: 28 Jun 90 18:28:05 GMT
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RSBONDI@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Richard S. Bondi) writes:

>In article <388@arkham.enet.dec.com>, norteman@gemvax.enet.dec.com (Karen J. Norteman) writes:

>Warning!! Warning!! This is what I thought until I called Dove
>about their $500.- '030 board (MacConnection price).  Turns out
>you do not get an appreciable speed increase at all: all the board
>is good for is PMM - and if that were all I wanted, I personally
>would buy some cheap RAM and the Virtual INIT instead.  As far

Wait a second here! You CANNOT run Virtual INIT on your MacPlus.
It REQUIRES the PMM.

>as I can tell, if I want SE/30 performance out of an SE or Plus, I
>will have to buy an expensive accelerator (Radius or sthg) or

The cheapest '030 _accelerator_ I believe is the Mercury board
from Total Systems. I _think_ it runs about $599.

There is also a board from Novy Systems called "Quick030" or
something like that that is similiarly priced.

I do not know how the performance of either of these compares with
an SE/30.

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