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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac Video Card: weird SIMMs?
Message-ID: <0E010021.8nr4bi@gla-aux.uucp>
Date: 29 May 91 07:03:23 GMT
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In article <CKD.91May23151123@eff.org>, ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
> I've got something in this machine that the Monitors cdev says is a
> "Macintosh Display Card."  It gives me 4-bit grays on the Apple Two-Page
> Mono Monitor, and the copyright notices on the board say 1990.
> 
> It has a pair of weird SIMM slots (they're *almost* the size of IIfx
> SIMMs, but they aren't) which appear to be for upgrading VRAM.
> 
> Does anyone recognize this thing?  It's an Apple product, it can't be
> *that* weird, can it?  I'd like to get 256 grays on my two-page monitor.

Yes -- it's a Macintosh 4*8 Display Card.  There is a VRAM upgrade for it
(to take it to 32-bit on the 13" color display), however it may be listed
as a 4*8 to 8*32 upgrade...

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