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.
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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

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