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From: lip@gcc-milo.ARPA (Seth Lipkin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Hyperdrive 2000 and HyperMac->HyperMac plus upgrades
Message-ID: <450@gcc-milo.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 14:10:39 EST
Article-I.D.: gcc-milo.450
Posted: Thu Jan 23 14:10:39 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jan-86 07:45:31 EST
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Reply-To: lip@gcc-milo.UUCP (Seth Lipkin)
Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma
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Keywords: Hyperdrive upgrade MacPlus

In article <642@harvard.UUCP> stew@harvard.UUCP (Stew Rubenstein) writes:
>
>The person I talked to at GCC said that understandably, there was a
>lot of concern Out There with the upgrade costs, particularly the
>$2790 figure (this is my situation, personally).  She said they are
>reconsidering the upgrade prices, so it may not be so bad.  I will let
>y'all know when I hear more.
>

If you have a HyperDrive 10, you can get the new HyperDrive 2000 RAM, floating-
point processor, software, and 12 MHz 68000 (everything BUT the 20MB disk) for
$1,895 (not $1,995!).  You are NOT required to buy the 10->20 upgrade first.  
What you will have is a "HyperDrive 2010" or a "HyperDrive 2000/10" or whatever 
you would like to call it.  This was NOT decided until during the MacWorld show
(in response to *many* inquiries), so those of you who were at the show may
have heard differently.

At MacWorld, there was a HyperDrive running on a MacPlus board.  You can still
create as many Drawers as you like, and each Drawer may be either flat or
hierarchical.  All Drawers will still be dynamically sized, as before.  The
speed is impressive.

I do not yet know whether or not there are any timing loops that will "break"
with the HyperDrive 2000.  The AppleTalk drivers did have timing loop problems,
but these have been fixed (I don't know whether or not Andy was referring to
this).

Please mail me if you have any questions about any of our products.

Seth Lipkin
General Computer Company
harvard!gcc-milo!lip

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