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From: philip@CS.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Price cuts on motherboard upgrades ???
Message-ID: <1991May21.184214.20215@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 May 91 18:42:14 GMT
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In article <1991May21.164434.18197@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu>, gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu writes:
|> The SE/30 has eight SIMM slots.  2 banks of 4 slots each.  With 4 MB SIMMs, you
|> can thus install up to 32 MB.  Too bad you can't access it...
I tried a new tactic today. After getting some answers to unrelated
questions from the System 7 Upgrade Answerline, I asked them how I
could get 32-bit addressing on my cx. I told them I knew about Connectix's
MODE32, but I wanted to know what Apple was doing about it. I was told
about the price drop in the ci upgrade, and explained that I thought
this was a very expensive way of upgrading just one feature. All my
points were noted, and will be passed on (somewhere useful, I hope).

While I absolutely do not advocate flooding this service with
complaints about Apple policy (it is pretty useful), I think the
point just might get across if many people who call with a System
7 question end up with, "Oh, by the way, what is Apple doing
to allow me 32-bit addressing on my <name your model>?"

This strikes me as a better starting point than a lawsuit.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu