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From: fdm@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Frank D. Malczewski)
Subject: Re: MacII => MacIIfx
Message-ID: <1991May29.162300.4159@wlbr.imsd.contel.com>
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Date: Wed, 29 May 91 16:23:00 GMT

In article <1462@radius.com> bob@radius.com (bob lashley) writes:
+Don't forget the SWIM chip.  I think this still comes with the drive upgrade, 
+as does a set of probably useless ROMs to permit using it.  (SWIM is the disk 
+controller chip)

From earlier posts, I had gathered that the HDFD SWIM chip was included as
part of the motherboard upgrade.  What you would need, then, instead of the
drive "upgrade" would be just a raw HDFD drive (no SWIM chip, no ROMs).

--Frank Malczewski                        (fdm@wlv.imsd.contel.com)