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From: vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: upgrade for MAC 128?
Message-ID: <4905@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 88 21:20:00 GMT
References: <338@lexicon.UUCP> <430030@hp-sde.SDE.HP.COM>
Reply-To: vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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>Can anyone recommend a company that will upgrade a MAC 128K?
>I hope to upgrade it to 1 MB if possible. Do I need a new mother
>board? New ROM?
>					-cliff
>Cliff Spencer
>{harvard,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!lexicon!cspencer
 
	There was a place in Philly advertising to do the job for about
$700 in Computer Shopper.  I don't know if they still do or not.

	I came across something interesting in Mac Week the other day.
In the back there are 1/4 or 1/8th page ads from different small companies.
One of them was advertising a 68030 board for the SE.  Ok, no problem.  The
funny part was at the very end of the ad, where they said "Prices from $XXXX
(68020 from $XXX), available also for Plus, 512KE and 128KE."

	"HUH?" I said?  There is no such thing as a 128KE!  So I called them
(I love 800 numbers)  They say that this is essentially correct, you add the
128K ROMs from a plus or a 512KE and an 800K drive, plug in thier board and
just us it (something about it having 2 or 4Meg RAM.)  If this works then there
is a viable aternative to the standard upgrade.  (The add on board has a 
SCSI port on it too.)



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