frameli@dpdmai.dec.com (Vernon Dale Frameli) (04/28/88)
Hi,
First let me say that I'm glad to hear from you. My Mac and
other hardware where purchased in November 1987, are still in
excellent condition. I'd like to say that these have been my
pride and joy, and I have treated them as such. I'm selling my
Mac because I want to buy a bigger Mac. I would like to get a
Mac II with an 80Mb hard drive, 8Mb ram, and a color monitor. A
Mac IIe maybe? Thanks to Uncle Sam and the IRS, I'm half way
there now. If I can sell my present system, then I should attain
my goal. I can provide copies of any receipts you might need.
Now down to business, here's what I have:
Macintosh SE with dual 800k floppies and 1 Mb RAM
Extended Keyboard
Imagewriter II
Macintosh to Imagewriter Cable
All Manuals
Price: $2400.00
I'm selling the Mac for about list, but I'm also throwing in
the Extended Keyboard, Imagewriter II and Cable for free. I will
of course include the Mouse. Your saving approximately $195.00
for the Extended Keyboard, $495.00 for the Imagewriter II, and
$25.00 for the Cable, not to mention the sales tax which would
otherwise be included. See Below For More Savings.
Prodigy 4 SE - 16Mhz 68020/68881 Accelerator with 4Mb of Fast RAM
All Manuals
Mac Snap Toolkit
Price: 1995.00
This accelerator has been reviewed in several major Macintosh
publications including: Mac World, and Mac User. You will also
find a review listed in BYTE. In almost every CPU intensive task
put to it, the Prodigy out performed both the Macintosh II, and
the Radius Accelerator. It contains 4Mb of Fast RAM which will
be upgradable to 32Mb as soon as 4Mb chips are available. The
Prodigy 4 SE has an additional slot available for adding the
Motorola 68851 Memory Management Unit, which is required for
Apple's version of UNIX, and for any truly Multitasking MacOS
down the road. The Prodigy occupies the Mac SE's internal
expansion slot, and includes an adapter which will allow you to
add a larger monitor at a later date.
Additionally, the Prodigy includes software for creating a
RamDisk, and for turning the 68020 instruction cache, and
SANE-to-68881 options on and off, this provides you with 100%
compatability with non-accelerated Macs. I love this accelerator
so much, that I could never force myself to go back to a
"plain vanilla" Mac SE again.
If you work with MultiFinder, or Hypercard, then you will
certainly enjoy the additional RAM that the Prodigy can provide.
If you have "Falcon", by Spectrum Holobyte, as I do, then you
will truly come to appreciate being able to load this 1.6Mb F-16
simulator into your RamDisk and running it in real time.
The Prodigy is sold by SuperMac direct to dealers, so you
could not purchase it at a lower price than this. All manuals
are included, and installation is a snap. I will throw in the
Mac Snap tools needed to crack open your Mac and install the
Prodigy, (a $20.00 savings).
If your interested in purchasing my Macintosh system or the
Prodigy accelerator, then this is what I propose:
You tell me where you live, and I will have the packages
weighed by my local UPS. I will then send you a VAXMail message
informing you of the shipping, insurance, and COD charges.
You send me a Money Order to cover these charges, and I will
then UPS Ground everything up to your address. You will need
Money Orders totaling the remaining balance. I will absorb the
cost of the Shipping, COD, and Insurance. We will simply deduct
that from the price of the system.
daleFabian_Fabe_Ramirez@cup.portal.com (04/30/88)
Vernon (and others), Just a bit of clarification about the Prodigy SE's expandability. Currently, the largest amount of RAM that the Finder can address is still 4 Mb. This is a limitation of the SE's Memory Manager. Even though the Prodigy SE is equiped with a socket for the 68851 PMMU chip, it cannot be utilitized by the Mac's OS. The only Mac that can take advantage of the 68851 is the Mac II running A/UX. Also note that A/UX (Apple's implementation of UNIX) is Mac II specific and supports B&W (sorry no color). It was hoped that the first release of A/UX would support a 68020/68881/68851 equipped Mac SE, but it doesn't. The Prodigy SE can, however, take advantage of the Mac's motherboard RAM and utilitize it as a RAM Disk via the new firmware (ROM 3.0B) and the Prodigy RAM Disk software (v1.28). Existing owners can obtain an upgrade through Levco. For more info call Levco at (619) 457-2110. I hope this clarifies things and should anyone have any questions, either send me E-Mail or call SuperMac (415) 964-8884. Fabian Ramirez SuperMac Technology fabian_fabe_ramirez@cup.portal.com sun!cup.portal.com!fabian_fabe_ramirez