gjohn@Neon.Stanford.EDU (George H. John) (03/06/90)
My apologies, this must have been posted before, but... I'd like to end up with a Mac (plus or SE) with 1 or 2 MB, either by paying millions of dollars to an authorized dealer or by buying used equipment. From what I know about Macs, it seems that memory upgrading is fairly common and easy. Is it possible to buy a 512K Mac (used) and upgrade the memory to 1MB or 2MB? Will it then be equivalent to a Mac Plus? Or is there another hardware difference? "My ignorance is my own, not my university's..." --George
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (03/06/90)
gjohn@Neon.Stanford.EDU (George H. John) writes: >From what I know about Macs, it seems that memory upgrading is fairly >common and easy. Is it possible to buy a 512K Mac (used) and upgrade >the memory to 1MB or 2MB? Will it then be equivalent to a Mac Plus? Yes. In fact, I've done it. I happen to hae a 512Ke upgraded to 2Meg and a SCSI, which is now surplus since we just bought a IIci. I need to sell it one of these days. Anyway, if you take a straight Mac 512Ke and toss in a Dove 548s, you end up with a 2 meg macintosh with a SCSI port. Nice system, cheaper than upgrading via Apple. Runs fairly warm, so I recommend a fan. >Or is there another hardware difference? The only known difference between this and a Mac+ is that some 512Ke's have older versions of the clock chip minus the Xpram. Causes the "sound" cdev in 6.0.x to not function -- you can't set the sysbeep. And there happens to be an INIT available that adds that functionality back. (and it runs 6.0.4, since I've been doing it, so you can play with all the latest software). -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> chuq@apple.com <+> [This is myself speaking] All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil -- Shelley