> >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
I think I still have a couple of upgrade cards floating around. One was the Applied Engineering 030 upgrade for the Classic which fit over the cpu. I remember when I installed it and thought to myself that I just got ripped off because it didn't seem any quicker and the darn clip was always loose. The version for the SE wasn't any better in terms of speed though it fit in the pds slot instead. I guess the Daystar ones were the best though I can't recall what the SE was like. Now the one for the SE30 to take it up to an 040 might be interesting. Think I asked before, but if anyone has an adaptor for an SE30 that they were willing to sell.....I have a couple of 040 accelerators but on the SE30 it needs the adaptor. Kevin -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
