Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wlcrjs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!wlcrjs!marc From: marc@wlcrjs.UUCP (Marc Lavine) Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Re: A proposal for Mac upgrades Message-ID: <352@wlcrjs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 02:03:13 EDT Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.352 Posted: Fri Oct 5 02:03:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 04:03:25 EDT References: <227@ssc-bee.UUCP> Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL Lines: 16 > I propose Apple redesign the memory board the way they should have > designed it in the beginning. A simple board with 16 sockets and a > personality module (or jumpers) to allow the use of 64k or 256k rams (or > even 1 meg rams, if compatible). From what I have heard and read, there is NO difference between the 128K boards and the 512K boards except for the type of RAM chips installed. In other words, the boards were designed to take either type of chip from the beginning (or sometime around then). Apple wanted the Mac to be a closed system in terms of hardware, and that appears to be their reasoning in not using sockets for the RAM chips. Marc Lavine -- Marc Lavine ...ihnp4!wlcrjs!marc