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From: v564huce@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Allen Hsu)
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Subject: SuperDrives in non SWIMmming Macs...
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Date: 5 Mar 91 16:31:34 GMT
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Hey Y'all
	SuperDrive in a vanilla Mac?  Well, there's only one solution other
than an Apple upgrade.  Kennect Technology has a gadget called a Rapport.  It
supposedly allows one to use 1.44 meg drives on otherwise exluded machines
(including 512KE Macs I'm told).  This is not a cheap option at something like
$250.00 (It could be less).
	Outside of that, no.  Apple's upgrade gets you a SWIM (Super
Intergrated Wozniak Machine) chip.  I'm no rreally sure that the ROMs, drive
and chip is worth that much.  Shereve Systems was advertising a Mac II to Mac
IIX upgrade for like $800, not including drives.  So for around $1000 one can
have a faster machine and drive.  Last I heard, Apple still wants about $580
for their upgrade.

					-Allen Hsu-
					-I take donations, esp. IIFXs ;-)-