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From: akuo@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Augie Kuo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Upgrading //e to //gs
Message-ID: <19203@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Sun, 31-May-87 01:11:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 31 01:11:15 1987
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 The upgrade for the //e to a //gs basically replaces the //e backplate, mother-
board and all, with the //gs backplate. Thus you would have all the connections
for the monitor, disk drives, etc. but you wouldn't get a mouse or a numeric
keypad. Also, the dealers are required to "swap" the backplates plus $495 so
say goodbye to your //e if you do decide to do this. This also means that if
you have a clone of a //e, you wouldn't be able to "trade", even if it was a
clone //e backplate...

  I'd suggest then to just sell your //e and keep the drives, etc. since
  the cards will still work (except the 80 col. card) and just buy the //gs
  if you really want it. As for prices I've seen anywhere from $699 to $999
  for the //gs CPU and mouse, but usually you would have to buy a system to get
  that price. By the way, if anyone IS selling their //e CPU, I'm interested...


Augie Kuo
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