stew@harvard.UUCP (Stew Rubenstein) (01/22/86)
Just talked to someone at General Computer about their new machines and upgrade policy. A Mac equipped with a HyperDrive 2000 has a 20Mb disk, 2 Mb of memory, a 68881 floating point chip, and a 50% increase in clock speed (to 12MHz). Upgrade to a 2000 from a Mac 512K is $3195. If you already have a Hyperdrive 20, it will be $1895, and if you have a Hyperdrive 10, you must first upgrade to a 20 (for $895) and then to the 2000 (for a total of $2790). The person I talked to at GCC said that understandably, there was a lot of concern Out There with the upgrade costs, particularly the $2790 figure (this is my situation, personally). She said they are reconsidering the upgrade prices, so it may not be so bad. I will let y'all know when I hear more. As to HyperMac -> HyperMac Plus upgrades, these will be available in mid March, and will cost $89 for a ROM-only upgrade, or $299 for a logic board upgrade. So that means upgrading a HyperMac 512K to a HyperMac 512K with new ROMs and 800K floppy drive will cost $299 + $89 or $388. Upgrading to a HyperMac Plus with 1Mb of memory and the new keyboard will be $299 + $599 (to apple) + $299 (to GCC) (+ $129 if you want the new keyboard) or $1197 ($1326 w/keyboard). Stew
lip@gcc-milo.ARPA (Seth Lipkin) (01/23/86)
In article <642@harvard.UUCP> stew@harvard.UUCP (Stew Rubenstein) writes: > >The person I talked to at GCC said that understandably, there was a >lot of concern Out There with the upgrade costs, particularly the >$2790 figure (this is my situation, personally). She said they are >reconsidering the upgrade prices, so it may not be so bad. I will let >y'all know when I hear more. > If you have a HyperDrive 10, you can get the new HyperDrive 2000 RAM, floating- point processor, software, and 12 MHz 68000 (everything BUT the 20MB disk) for $1,895 (not $1,995!). You are NOT required to buy the 10->20 upgrade first. What you will have is a "HyperDrive 2010" or a "HyperDrive 2000/10" or whatever you would like to call it. This was NOT decided until during the MacWorld show (in response to *many* inquiries), so those of you who were at the show may have heard differently. At MacWorld, there was a HyperDrive running on a MacPlus board. You can still create as many Drawers as you like, and each Drawer may be either flat or hierarchical. All Drawers will still be dynamically sized, as before. The speed is impressive. I do not yet know whether or not there are any timing loops that will "break" with the HyperDrive 2000. The AppleTalk drivers did have timing loop problems, but these have been fixed (I don't know whether or not Andy was referring to this). Please mail me if you have any questions about any of our products. Seth Lipkin General Computer Company harvard!gcc-milo!lip Claimer: I *do* work for General Computer Company and am therefore biased towards its products. This is intended to be a response to the posted questions, not an advertisement. Please mail further questions directly to me.