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From: rupp@cod.NOSC.MIL (William L. Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: upgrade for MAC 128?
Message-ID: <1336@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 19 Dec 88 23:01:37 GMT
References: <338@lexicon.UUCP> <430030@hp-sde.SDE.HP.COM> <4905@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: rupp@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William L. Rupp)
Organization: Computer Sciences Corp. , San Diego
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In article <4905@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James) writes:
>>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.

My Mac is an April, 1984 model, which I have upgraded in the following steps:

	1. DigiGraphics board swap giving me 512K
	2. Authorized Apple ROM and disk-drive upgrade
	3. Dove Memory upgrade, a piggy-back board (MacSnap) pushing
	   my RAM up to 2Megs.  That upgrade also included a SCSI port

I later added an external hard disk, but that is another matter.  In conclusion,there are third party memory and SCSI upgrades, but you need the Apple
128K ROMs, which only a dealer or a VAR can supply (new, anyway).  I want to
point out that, while I saved some money, I am stuck with the old DB9
connectors.  This is not generally a problem, but you may run into some
devices which will not work with such a configuration.

Bill

P.S. My power supply went not long afterwards, but it *was* old, so that
was not unexpected.  A new supply (actually, I think it was rebuilt) cost
me $200.00