Re: MacII

Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Tue, 12 Mar 1996 03:05:48 EST

At 10:49 PM 3/11/96, Donna G. Thomas wrote:
>We have a standard MacII that actually works pretty well. Because of its
>reliability we'd like to upgrade it. It has 8mg RAM I have read that
>there is some kind of RAM (SIMMS) exapnder for MacII's - how much can you
>expand? Is it reliable? Also, would you recommend any of the
>accelerator cards? Which ones?

You'll need the PMMU upgrade, you'll probably want to go with the
SuperDrive upgrade (supports HD disks, and I believe used to include the
PMMU upgrade) and you'll have to get the special PAL 4M SIMMs (which are a
bit more expensive) to take you to 20M (four new SIMMs and four of your
existing 1M SIMMs) or 32M (eight new SIMMs). I'm not sure of a good source
for any of these items, but you could try some of the remarketers like Sun
and Shreve Systems (check the back of MacWeek).

You'll also need to run at least System 7.

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