mason@furilo.dec.com (Explaining is not understanding) (05/20/87)
The answer to my MassTech 2MB upgrade problem seems to have been defined. I have spoken with an electronics shop in Cambridge, MA, about the problem. These folks apparently know the principals of the defunct company, and have dealt with several of the boards. The story is that the upgrade is not (PERIOD!) compatible with the 128K ROMs. This is purportedly due to a change to the ROMs after the board was being built. There is no apparent fix for the problem, so the upgrades are good as expensive souveniers (and maybe as a source of memory chips). My condolences to others in the same boat. My thanks to all who have responded with help and encouragement. I'm off to get my MacMemory board installed. After running 2MB, using 512k is intolerable. Are we spoiled, or what? Gary
jackie@apple.UUCP (Hernan'Jackie' Macapanpan) (08/28/87)
I just wanted to thank everyone that responded to my request for PackIt and BinHex. You are all very kind souls. To the gentleman who objected: "Someday you'll start at a company, not know anyone, and need something." Jackie P.S.-Someone had emailed me also wanting BinHex and Packit. I lost the mail message accidentally. Please email me again.
mp1w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger) (09/09/87)
The orignal BinHex (v 2.0 I believe) was actually created by an MS Basic program that wrote a whole bunch of hex data out to a file. It then diddled with the header to get the resource and data forks set up right, and viola, there was BinHex. You could then use this version to download the newer binhex's and use them. Kind of a double bootstrap. I suppose that someone could redo this for the current version of BinHex, again running on the assumption that everyone has MS basic. Marc Pawliger
mp1w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger) (09/09/87)
The orignal BinHex (v 2.0 I believe) was actually created by an MS Basic program that wrote a whole bunch of hex data out to a file. It then diddled with the header to get the resource and data forks set up right, and viola, there was BinHex. You could then use this version to download the newer binhex's and use them. Kind of a double bootstrap. I used to have this laying around, but I can't seem to find it now. I suppose that someone could redo this for the current version of BinHex, again running on the assumption that everyone has MS basic. Marc Pawliger
lampson@decwrl.UUCP (09/16/87)
In additional to an MS-BASIC bootstrap version. A MacPascal
bootstrap version is also available.
_Mike
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Mike Lampson
Digital Equipment Corp.
Arlington Heights, IL
UUCP: {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax,...}!decwrl!crvax1.dec.com!lampson
ARPA: LAMPSON%CRVAX1.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM
Genie: M.LAMPSONghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) (09/29/89)
In less than 24 hour, I've received a lot of replies on the question of
upgrading memory on a SE/30. They are from
Hank Shiffman <shiffman@Sun.COM>
d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Mac Hack(D.Handler) <consp22@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
"R.Crispin - Psychology" <psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Clark Anderson <anderson@apple.com>
hal@cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins)
borton@fwi.uva.nl
Thanks to you guys all for your kindness. Now I know that I can move 4
256k SIMMs to lower bank and add 4 1M SIMMs to upper bank to get total
5 Meg of memory. Sounds pretty nice to me.
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