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From: stevel@dartvax.UUCP (Steve Ligett)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Re: Another Mac Review - Memory Expansion
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Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 16:24:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  2 16:24:21 1984
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John Duncan (mb2c!jed) says:
-  You may be disappointed after you spend your hard-earned bucks on those
-  hard-to-get 256K drams for your Mac...
-
-  When Apple brought out the III it originally came with only 96KB.  In order
-  to upgrade to 128K you had to get the Apple upgrade kit because the
-  Maximum Memory Size was *BURNED INTO THE ROM*.  You could add the chips, but
-  without the ROM, SOS would only talk to 96K....


Apple has told me that all that must be done to upgrade to 512k is to
replace the memory chips.  The hardware and software are designed to
take advantage of the 512k if it is there.
 
They've also said that hardware documentation for the Mac will be out
May 1st.  So, I'd rather just wait and see...
 
Steve (decvac or linus)!dartvax!stevel

ps - They show a great movie (short feature) 'The Making of "1984"'
at their "software developers seminar" - try to attend.