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From: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: DataFrame changes
Message-ID: <3770@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 13:50:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.3770
Posted: Wed Sep 24 13:50:26 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 24-Sep-86 22:16:58 EDT
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Reply-To: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson)
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Organization: Amdahl Corp, UTS Products Group
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Keywords: Monster Dataframe Levco Supermac XP compatibilty absolutely
Summary: Supermac Dataframe XP and Levco Monster Mac compatibilty

In article <724@bnrmtv.UUCP> west@bnrmtv.UUCP (Andrew West) writes:

> 3)  The "XP upgrade", for $99 for the first month or so (Oct) and
>     $200 thereafter consists of an added ROM chip which helps out
>     the SCSI driver routines to speed everything up (the rumor I
>     originally heard was that the DF ROM cleaned up some sloppy
>     firmare in Apple's SCSI driver)

I called Supermac yesterday to get the scoop on the XP enhancement and
compatibility with a Monster Mac upgrade.  The current implementation
of the XP is a small ROM board which, as most ROM boards work, fits into
the Mac ROM sockets ( he didn't say but I would guess you pop the Apple
ROM's onto the infant card ).  My purchase of a Dataframe is imminent and
I was interested in compatibility with my Levco 2-meg upgrade.  It is
kind of impossible to slap the infant card on top of the daughter card
already in there.  I was told by Supermac Tech. Support that "they like
the Levco upgrade and they ``absolutely'' will come up with an XP
implementation that works with the Monster".  Now the big news, a
Dataframe may be upgraded at any time to a Dataframe XP.  Sold me.
I don't know yet if it might entail reformatting or something.
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Disclaimer time: I am a happy user of a Levco Monter Mac and that is all.
                 I expect to be a happy user of a Dataframe by tomorrow,
                   and that is all.
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I have no technical challenges,                              Howard C. Simonson
 just political ones.                ...{dragon,hplabs,ihnp4,nsc}!amdahl!howard

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