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From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 16Mhz Mac Classic?
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.031031.24801@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 03:10:31 GMT
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Does anyone know how tough it would be to make a Mac Classic run at 16Mhz
with a 16Mhz 68000?  I know that this chip is used in the portable and 
in several printers.  (Sounds like a good future Apple upgrade [expensive]
deal to me.)

Also, why did Apple bother to put a ext. floppy port on their new computers?
How many people actually use this port?  I know that this is mostly on the
computers for the educational programs, but it has been my experience that
people wait in line to use the Macs with hard drives (irregardless of the 
number of floppy drives) and practically totally ignore the Macs wo/ hard
drives unless they are desparate. (To anyone at UIUC, ever notice the lines
to use the Macs at the Union (all with hd) and the people waiting to use
the Mac IIs in the ME building while the 50-75 floppy based Mac pluses
are unused exect by one or two desperate souls.)  

My suggestion, for use on the Mac Classic at least (since this is supposed to 
be the affordable Mac...), make a 25 pin centronics parrallel port.
Include in the new 512K roms the code to translate quickdraw to bit-images,
and include on disk a bunch of printer description files so that output
could be custimized to your printer.  Notice that this would allow both
text and graphics output by using your printer's graphics modes. 

I'd like to hear replies to this.
					Todd Walk
					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

					walk@mrcne