At 02:24 -0400 05/27/2005, Vintage Macs wrote:
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 17:49:21 -0400
From: Allan Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What to do with IIcx?
At 8:12 AM -0500 5/26/05, Keith Johnson wrote:
I still have a boatload of compact Macs and other oddball workgroup
servers and other odd iterations that I'll be purging this spring,
if anyone's interested. I live in northeastern Illinois.
One thing I'd really like to have (again): a Mac SE with a working
Applied Engineering 40 MHz '030 accelerator card & support for 16 MB
of RAM. Or, alternatively, a Mac SE with the competing product of
its time, the DayStar Digital 50 MHz '030 accelerator card (and also
support for extra RAM but I don't remember if it was for 16 or what).
Several companies made similar upgrades for the Plus and SE. Let's
see: Total Systems (?, Total Something...), Dove, Newlife/Newbridge
as well as Applied Engineering and Daystar. There were a couple more
I can't remember--Gemini, I think, or that may have been the name of
the product. Was there an upgrade from Novy Systems?
Some of them came with video out as well as an accelerated CPU and
RAM expansion.
These seem to almost never show up on Ebay. I suspect that the
compacts bearing them get junked with the upgrade still inside. Sigh.
I was partial to the Newlife products (in my dreams, couldn't afford
them at the time) for reasons I can't remember now. I think it was
the price point/feature mix which matched my wants best. I did
purchase and install two of the Newlife upgrades for Mac 128/512
which upped the memory to 4 MB and added SCSI--basically made a
faster Plus out of them. Those were nice because they had eight
SIMM sockets and used the MB RAM. So a Mac 512 could add the Newlife
board, two 1 MB SIMMs (expensive) and six 256K SIMMs (basically free)
and have a machine a little faster than a 4 MB Plus.
Browsing through the ads in a MacWorld or MacUser from about 1992 -
1994 would probably reveal a good bit of history about which upgrades
were available from which companies. I know the PCL at Univ. of TX
at Austin has back issues.
Jeff Walther
Jeff Walther
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