Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!ward From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro.apple Subject: >512K mac... Message-ID: <1336@hao.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 23:19:35 EST Article-I.D.: hao.1336 Posted: Mon Jan 14 23:19:35 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 03:45:08 EST Distribution: net Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 44 Xref: watmath net.micro.mac:342 net.micro.apple:1579 <> I am helping to design upgrades for the macintosh. The lowest level upgrade is for 1M byte. That hopefully will cost only about $1000 or less. The 1 meg board will go inside of the mac, and the mac will look no different from the outside. However, it will have 1 meg of memory plus the memory that the mac already had (1.5 meg total if you had a 512K mac) that runs twice as fast as the regular mac ram because it is DMA. We have designed boards going up to 8 meg. We have implemented our design up to the 4 meg level. Here is what we are planning to do: You can buy the 1 meg upgrade, and it will be internal with a connector that is invisible from the outside of the mac (like the interrupt and reset switches) on the bottom right vents. If you connect the card-cage that we are designing to the connector, you can add several additional things... more memory, a color board we have designed, a speedup board, and some others... The card cage has a case like the mac's, and it fits snugly under the mac, adding 5 inches to the mac's height, and no inches to it's footprint. The question: Is this what you guys in netland really want? Do you have any questions or suggestions? Please let me know, because we are really doing this to make the macintosh a REALLY serious machine. Since our product will be compatible with the hyper drive, and any other hard drives, the mac can become sort of like a mini-computer. Imagine 8 Meg of ram and a 192 meg hard drive... Dave Kliman 70 Glen Cove Drive Glen Head, NY 11545 (516) 671-1301 to be found somewhere near sjuvax!drexel!dave presby!drexel!dave -- Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD UUCP: {hplabs,nbires,brl-bmd,seismo,menlo70,stcvax}!hao!ward ARPA: hplabs!hao!ward@Berkeley BELL: 303-497-1252 USPS: POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307