Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Mac II upgrade & an alternative Message-ID: <670@stech.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 12:29:31 GMT Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass. Lines: 28 The prices for upgrading from a Mac II to a Mac IIx are out - the complete upgrade (PMMU, logic board, drive) runs around $3200, suggested retail. Ouch! There may be, however, and functional alternative for people like me who already have the PMMU. I was speaking to a technician at Dayna Communications yesterday and discovered that Dayna's 1.44 MS-DOS drive will not only read and write both 720K and 1.44 meg MS-DOS drives, but that it will also read and write Apple's superdrive format. Though the drive costs a couple hundred more (retail) than the Apple drive upgrade, the Apple drive will only read MS-DOS formats; it won't write them. (Since I already have a 360K DaynaFile, my cost would even be less, since I would be adding a drive without paying for the enclosure...) Comments? Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications UUCP: husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY ******************************************************************************** Miscellaneous profundity: "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai ********************************************************************************