Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uwmcsd1!lakesys!macak
From: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac //x upgrade (price)?
Message-ID: <1057@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 17:51:47 GMT
References: <1797@uokmax.UUCP>
Reply-To: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
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Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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In article <1797@uokmax.UUCP> rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull) writes:
>So, is there any word on the availability/price of an upgrade from Mac //
>to Mac //x. I'm especially interested in the drive upgrade.
>	Robert
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>Robert K. Shull
>University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network

The following is paraphrased from Apple's press release about the Mac IIx (by
the way, the press release refers to it as the Macintosh IIx, not the
Macintosh //x):


Apple will eventually offer four upgrade levels for owners of Macintosh II
computers:

1) Currently available is a PMMU chip.  This provides upgraded memory
management for the Mac II.  Apple states that "the PMMU chip is required for
the A/UX operating system and will be used by future versions of the Macintosh
operating system."

2) Available "during the fourth calendar quarter" will be a 1.44MB Floppy Disk
Drive Upgrade Kit.  It includes including the new drive, system ROMs and the
SWIM chip.  The kit allows Mac II user to replace an 800K drive with the FDHD
or add an FDHD as a second drive.

3) The date for the availability for a Macintosh IIx Logic Board Upgrade Kit
was not specified.  This kit will provide a Macintosh II user with "both the
functionality associated with the built-in MMU and the improved performance
associated with the 68030 and the 68882."

4) By using both the Logic Board Upgrade Kit and the FDHD kit, a standard
Macintosh II "can achieve full system equivalence with the Macintosh IIx
system."

The suggested retail price for a 4MB/80MB (RAM/Hard disk) Macintosh IIx system
is $9,369.  Without a hard disk drive, the suggested retail price of a
4MB/FDHD system is $7,769.

The suggested retail price for the Logic Board Upgrade Kit (requiring the
trade-in of the current logic board) will be $2,199.

The suggested retail price of the FDHD Upgrade Kit is $599; the PMMU chip is
priced at $499.


Jim

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