>512K mac...

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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 10:54:09 EST
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From: [email protected] (Richard Furuta)

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>
>I am helping to design upgrades for the macintosh. The lowest
>level upgrade is for 1M byte. That hopefully will cost only
>about $1000 or less. The 1 meg board will go inside of the mac,
>and the mac will look no different from the outside. However,
>it will have 1 meg of memory plus the memory that the mac already
>had (1.5 meg total if you had a 512K mac) that runs twice as
>fast as the regular mac ram because it is DMA. We have designed
>boards going up to 8 meg. We have implemented our design up
>to the 4 meg level. Here is what we are planning to do: You
>can buy the 1 meg upgrade, and it will be internal with a connector
>that is invisible from the outside of the mac (like the interrupt
>and reset switches) on the bottom right vents. If you connect
>the card-cage that we are designing to the connector, you can
>add several additional things... more memory, a color board we
>have designed, a speedup board, and some others... The card
>cage has a case like the mac's, and it fits snugly under the
>mac, adding 5 inches to the mac's height, and no inches to it's
>footprint.
>
>The question: Is this what you guys in netland really want?
>Do you have any questions or suggestions?
>Please let me know, because we are really doing this to make
>the macintosh a REALLY serious machine. Since our product will
>be compatible with the hyper drive, and any other hard drives,
>the mac can become sort of like a mini-computer. Imagine 8 Meg
>of ram and a 192 meg hard drive...
>
> Dave Kliman
> 70 Glen Cove Drive
> Glen Head, NY 11545
> (516) 671-1301
> to be found somewhere near sjuvax!drexel!dave
> presby!drexel!dave
>
>

(The original article was posted to Usenet by Michael Ward,
ward@hao).