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From: lriggins@afit-ab.arpa (L. Maurice Riggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Big Disks
Message-ID: <273@afit-ab.arpa>
Date: 23 Jan 88 03:42:16 GMT
References: <4708@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <5267@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <14268@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Reply-To: lriggins@afit-ab.arpa (L. Maurice Riggins)
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH
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In article <14268@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> mcb@oddjob.uchicago.edu.UUCP (He Who Passes Through Locked Doors) writes:

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>	2) The Integrated Woz Machine (the IC that controls the disk drives)
>	   is socketed in the MacII (and maybe in the SE).  Apple doesn't
>	   normally socket chips, so they likely plan on upgrading the IWM.
>I wouldn't hold my breath, but I expect to see 1.6M drives eventually.
>						-Matt

From what I read in initial reports about the SE, it's IMZ was different and
was clocked at 16 MHz to support the new 1.6 M drives.  Don't know if the
latter is mandatory, but the articles implied the former machines were clocked
at the 8 MHz processor speed on the IMZ.


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Maurice                lriggins@afit-ab.ARPA