Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: New Macintoshes and Apple's Satellite Announcment Message-ID: <1990Oct17.191923.21747@eng.umd.edu> Date: 17 Oct 90 19:19:23 GMT References: <9146@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1990Oct16.221154.20681@midway.uchicago.edu> <1990Oct17.035703.19634@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 26 In article <1990Oct17.035703.19634@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) writes: >I don't think you have to worry too much about II, IIx and IIcx. The first >Macs were pretty well dead end-machines. No slots, no fast i/o, no ram >upgradability, etc. Atleast with the IIx and IIcx you can bring them up >to 32meg of ram, I think the II can go to 32meg as well. Plus there slots, >SCIS i/o, etc. A lot more expandability and therefore a lot more useful >into the feature. An un-upgraded II cannot be brought up past 8MB of RAM. A IIx or FDHD II can, with special SIMMS made to disable the 4MB test mode. Of course, both can be brought up to a IIFX, given a motherboard swap. >Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's a thing the CI or FX, >barring speed, can do, that the II IIx and IIcx can't. > >I wish Apple would do something like bring back the IIx board and offer >Mac II users a CHEAP upgrade to the IIx. This would be a lot nicer than >having to buy PMMUs, and FDHD rom kits. Yeah... Hmm, considering that the IIx and later IIs used the same circuit board, I wonder if there is a way to modify the II circuit board to accept a 68030... -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.