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- From: gsmlrn@gsm001.mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson)
- Subject: Re: Expanding Classic to 8M ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.013256.7979@gsm001.mendelson.com>
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- References: <92350.122843P88038@BARILVM.BITNET>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:32:56 GMT
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- In article <92350.122843P88038@BARILVM.BITNET> Noam G. Nudelman <P88038@BARILVM.BITNET> writes:
-
- >
- > Does anyone know of an expansion card for a Mac Classic that
- >will allow the installation of 8 megabyte of memory.
-
- It cannot be done (and still be useful). The Classic's rom sits 4 meg.
- So if you could add memory, you would need to add some sort of bank switching
- hardware to allow it to work.
-
- If you did add the bank switching hardware, with the right drivers you
- could use it as a ram disk.
-
- If you were to add a 68030 coprocessor card you might be able to do it,
- but make sure you ask before you buy it. I don't think these are worth
- it because a 4/40 LCII is selling for $1000 (new at COMPUSA and several
- other places) and an Classic II is about $1100. I expect that it would
- not be too hard to sell a used Classic 4/40 for about $600.
-
- Geoff.
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