darkstar@wam.umd.edu (Martin Walser) (12/06/90)
I own a Mac II which I purchased a couple years ago and I am interested
in upgrading and would like some information on options:
My system: simple Mac II, no extras, no Sooooper Drive (or controller),
just basic CPU, hard drive, 800k floppy, etc...
What I'm looking to do:
I want a little more power and zip. My questions are fairly simply:
1) What would I get out of an fx upgrade? Approx costs?
2) I was thinking more along the lines of a 3rd party 030 card/accelerator
with perks. What do I need to run system 7? Any comments on Marathon
or Daystar (?) boards? Speed, advantages, costs? I don't want to go all
the way up to 50Mhz or anything... Just some speed increase (33 or so).
3) I want also to get a 1.4meg floppy. What do I need? Does this only come
from Apple, or are their 3rd party possibilities?
4) Oh yeah... this is more like question 2b, but if I use a 3rd party board
will I need faster SIMMS? I have 2megs on borad right now and the speeds
are >= 100ns (I'm not sure if I have 100 or 120 ns chips), I plan to
upgrade to 5megs soon anyway (1meg simm prices are way down!) so...
Any information you have to share with me would be greatly appreciated.
Mart (darkstar@cscwam.umd.edu)
Thanks in advance.demarsee@gamera.cns.syr.EDU (Darryl E. Marsee) (12/07/90)
> 1) What would I get out of an fx upgrade? Approx costs?
Lots more speed, SuperDrive support, up-to-date ROMs. Cost for
the upgrade is around $4000 list/$3000 educational, but you get
$1800 back for your Mac II motherboard. Then you also have to
buy new SIMMs for it, which I guess you can get for around $40
per Meg.
2) I was thinking more along the lines of a 3rd party 030 card/accelerator
with perks. What do I need to run system 7? Any comments on Marathon
or Daystar (?) boards? Speed, advantages, costs? I don't want to go all
the way up to 50Mhz or anything... Just some speed increase (33 or so).
No comment.
3) I want also to get a 1.4meg floppy. What do I need? Does this only come
from Apple, or are their 3rd party possibilities?
With the FX upgrade, all you need to do is get the drive itself (no
ROM upgrade necessary). Don't know about the others.
4) Oh yeah... this is more like question 2b, but if I use a 3rd party board
will I need faster SIMMS? I have 2megs on borad right now and the speeds
are >= 100ns (I'm not sure if I have 100 or 120 ns chips), I plan to
upgrade to 5megs soon anyway (1meg simm prices are way down!) so...
Ditto No comment.
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