info-mac@uw-beaver (01/18/85)
From: furuta@uw-beaver.arpa (Richard Furuta) This is forwarded from Usenet. Note that I am not the person to reply to. The adventurous among you may want to try "presby!drexel!dave"@seismo as a return address. > >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).