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From: pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: SE upgrades? Rapport/Drive 2.4?
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.093939.3197@csc.anu.oz.au>
Date: 29 Oct 90 23:39:37 GMT
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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Opinions sought on upgrading an SE

the SE to SE/30 upgrade is annoying: it doesn't include either the 40 meg 
hard disk of the SE/30 OR the FDHD AND it removes one of the internal 800k 
drives (well, at least, the SE/30 board cannot support both 800k drives).

Here in Australia, I can get a new SE/30 for $4700, cf the upgrade for 
$1900 (and the FDHD upgrade for an extra $600) ($A1 = $US0.78)

Can one purchase the Apple upgrade mail order for the US
Anyway: is this upgrade better than getting one of the faster accelerators?

Another question: the Rapport and Drive 2.4 are being sold off here (total 
cost $400 for the both of them) - is this a good way to go? Does the 
Rapport/Drive 2.4 work? [I would like to have some degree of ability to 
read MS-DOS disks - part of the reason that I would like to get an FDHD]
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Phil Ryan                                         
ANU Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics 
Canberra, Australia                               
pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au   phone:(61 6) 249 4678   fax:(61 6) 249 0741