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From: bill@crystal.UUCP (Bill Cox)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: 2 Meg upgrade for Mac+
Message-ID: <82@crystal.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-May-86 00:03:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  8 00:03:24 1986
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Summary: Mac+ Memory upgrade questions/comments

In article <372@ptsfb.UUCP>, che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che) writes:
> I was at my local computer store and saw a $199. Mac+ 2 Meg upgrade which
> I originally heard about at the West Coast Computer Faire.  It consists
> of a double row of RAM chips on a card which you can just plug into
> the Mac+ board.  (The box also says it includes a free fan and some
> RAMdisk software.)  It is an off-the-shelf upgrade and is supposedly
> user-installable.
> 
> Does anyone actually have experience with this product?  I'm sorry I
> don't have the name.  

I saw an ad for "MacMemory Inc." in the May MacWorld, page 25.  They are
selling something that sounds a lot like this, but they want FIVE HUNDRED BUCKS.
Their product, called "TheMaxPlus", is a SIM with 2 rows of chips; they
told me over the phone that you plugged their board in, then your original
4 SIMs with 256K each into their board.
[SIM == Single Inline Memory module]

The guy I talked to made a big point of it being "...2Meg of contiguous
memory".

They include MaxRAM and MaxPrint software: ramdisk, print spooler usable
with hard disk or memory.  Also mentioned a piezoelectric fan (similar to
Levco's), but the fan is NOT mentioned in the ad.

QUESTIONS:

If this is the same thing that Mitch refers to, why the 150% price increase?

I thought that the Mac+ architecture would support the 1Meg SIMs when they
were available.  Why should you want/need extra logic?

Oki makes the 256K SIMs that I've seen - they look a lot like the
ones in the Mac+, but I haven't been able to directly compare them.
[btw, the 256K SIMs are available for around $25 or so each from Oki;
they said that 1Megs would be available soon, but didn't quote delivery
in their ad in Electronics.]

MacMemory claims that "Apple uses their memory product for the Mac+."
This seems a little silly.  Is this true?

Does anyone know anything about this company?

Does anyone know anything more about the price/availability/USABILITY
of 1Meg SIMs for the Mac+?

	bill