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From: daw@houxs.UUCP (David Wolverton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Followup to Mac512 ROM/disk upgrade availability
Keywords: bait and switch dealers YES IT EXISTS
Message-ID: <976@houxs.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 88 20:41:08 GMT
Organization: AT&T Data Systems Group, Holmdel, NJ
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Several weeks ago I posted a note wherein my local dealer
claimed the Mac 512 ROM/disk upgrade was unavailable.  To
make a short story shorter, I went to a second local dealer
who immediately ordered the upgrade from Apple.

Now my Mac512 is a 512E.  Yeah!  (Now to upgrade to 2 meg.)
So, YES THE ROM/DISK UPGRADE IS AVAILABLE FROM APPLE.

Thanks to the following people who sent private mail messages:

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According to the info I have here, you can still buy upgrades from Apple
to take either a Mac 512 or Mac 512 Enhanced up to a Mac Plus.

	M2516	Macintosh Plus Disk Drive Kit
	M5200/A	Macintosh Plus Logic Board Kit
	M2519	Macintosh Plus Keyboard (ifya really need it)

The disk drive kit upgrades the ROM and disk drive in a Mac 512.  The
logic board kit converts a Mac 512 Enhanced to a Mac Plus by switching the
mother board.  I'm not sure what both upgrades would cost at retail price,
but a student here can buy them together for $788.


John O'Malley         \ Personal Computing       \ Purdue University \ (317)
mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq \ Learning Resource Center \ Computing Center  \ 494-9944

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Your dealer is right - Apple removed that from the price list about a year
ago.  After a lot of screaming from the consortium schools, it was put back
on the Higher Education price list, but not the regular dealer price list.

It may have been even more than a year ago - I don't remember.

As far as Apple is concerned, the Mac Plus is the bottom of the Mac line.
All the rest is just bad memories.
-- 
   Steve Ligett     steve.ligett@dartmouth.edu or
(decvax harvard ihnp4 linus)!dartvax!steve.ligett

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Dave Wolverton
att!houxs!daw