[comp.sys.mac.hardware] Upgrading an Apple 8 bit video card

feinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (john a feinberg) (02/23/91)

I recently got a used Apple 8 bit video card, and I noticed that our computing
center was offering upgrades that would take an Apple 8 bit video card to an
8*24 card.  Is this true?  Can you really upgrade a 4*8 to an 8*24 card?  If it
is true, are the upgrade kits available via mail order, or are they only
available via mail order?  After taking a look at the card, it looks like all
that can be done is popping out about 6-8 memory chips, and replacing them
with better ones.  

John Feinberg
SUNY Buffalo

hardin@dino.cad.mcc.com (John Hardin) (02/26/91)

++++ feinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (john a feinberg) writes:
>  I recently got a used Apple 8 bit video card, and I noticed that our computing
>  center was offering upgrades that would take an Apple 8 bit video card to an
>  8*24 card.  Is this true?  Can you really upgrade a 4*8 to an 8*24 card?  If it
>  is true, are the upgrade kits available via mail order, or are they only
>  available via mail order?  After taking a look at the card, it looks like all
>  that can be done is popping out about 6-8 memory chips, and replacing them
>  with better ones.  

Is this upgrade available for *only* the "new" Apple 8-bit video card?
(I have a two-year old Apple 4/8 video card that I *assume* can *not*
be upgraded to 24-bit (short of selling it and buying a new one!).)

-jwh
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