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From: alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
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Subject: Re: IIe obsolete/redundant? (was:Re: MacLCw/IIe emulator)
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Date: 24 Oct 90 18:30:15 GMT
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In article <8140@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>	Well I think you can put as much memory in a //c as you can in a
>//e but I may be wrong.

A RamWorks III will hold up to 3 megs.  A RamFactor will hold up to 5 megs.
You can put one RamWorks III and one or more RamFactors in a IIe.  A Z-Ram,
on the other hand, is limited to 1 meg.  (Same for the Ram Express, if I
remember right.)

>	Do you have any reasons as to why you know/think a Zip Chip wouldn't
>work in a //c??? You --seem-- to imply that it's obvious that it wouldn't
>work, and I don't see that it is, when a //e is basically the same as a 
>//c...

Actually, I think I said that the Zip Chip probably wouldn't work in a 
IIc _Plus_.  (<--very big difference there)  Looking at any ad for a Zip Chip
will tell you that the Zip Chip will indeed work in a IIc.  The IIc Plus's
built-in increased speed would probably wreak havoc with a Zip Chip.

>	So, them being virtually identical (from a user-standpoint),
>it's silly to sell two computers that are the same... Apple does it all
>the time seemingly with the Macs but that's the same silliness..

The point I'm making, though, is that the IIe and IIc/IIc Plus are _not_ the
same.  They are hardly identical, either.  Did the bit about music cards, 
A/D-D/A boards, etc. go by without your noticing it?  More memory, more
speed (the TransWarp III is supposed to be upgradable), more this-and-that...

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