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From: darkstar@wam.umd.edu (Martin Walser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Questions on Upgrading a Mac II
Summary: What's needed? How much? Options?
Keywords: upgrade, vanilla MacII to cocolate Mac II
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.055617.14161@wam.umd.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 05:56:17 GMT
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Reply-To: darkstar@wam.umd.edu (Martin Walser)
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I own a Mac II which I purchased a couple years ago and I am interested
in upgrading and would like some information on options:

My system: simple Mac II, no extras, no Sooooper Drive (or controller), 
           just basic CPU, hard drive, 800k floppy, etc...

What I'm looking to do:

I want a little more power and zip. My questions are fairly simply:
1) What would I get out of an fx upgrade? Approx costs?

2) I was thinking more along the lines of a 3rd party 030 card/accelerator
   with perks. What do I need to run system 7?  Any comments on Marathon
   or Daystar (?) boards? Speed, advantages, costs? I don't want to go all
   the way up to 50Mhz or anything... Just some speed increase (33 or so).

3) I want also to get a 1.4meg floppy. What do I need? Does this only come
   from Apple, or are their 3rd party possibilities? 

4) Oh yeah... this is more like question 2b, but if I use a 3rd party board
   will I need faster SIMMS? I have 2megs on borad right now and the speeds
   are >= 100ns (I'm not sure if I have 100 or 120 ns chips), I plan to 
   upgrade to 5megs soon anyway (1meg simm prices are way down!) so...

Any information you have to share with me would be greatly appreciated.

Mart  (darkstar@cscwam.umd.edu)

Thanks in advance.