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- From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
- Subject: Re: Good old Darek
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:15:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.161342.27695@newshost.lanl.gov>, hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:
- >Ah, c'mon, Howard. These comments may have been close to the mark for the
- >early Macs, but certainly isn't the case for any of the modular ones (LC, si,
- >ci, fx, vx, vi, quadra, etc). The ci has a cache card slot, SIMM sockets, and
- >4 Nubus slots into which may be inserted graphics adapters, ethernet cards,
- >accelerators, sound cards, video capture cards, etc. You don't even have to
- >turn a screw to "pop the hood" for access to the motherboard.
-
- The LC, LC II and IIsi are not exactly what I'd call 'modular'. Neither are
- the PowerBook series, Apple Computer's most popular selling machine at present.
-
- The LC/LC II/IIsi have one slot -- and it isn't even a NuBus slot! True, you
- can "pop the hood" easily enough, and the SIMMs are fairly inexpensive. But if
- you want to put an ethernet card AND some other card into a Macintosh, just
- make sure you're paying more than $2000 for the system, since the low end
- systems only give you the one slot.
-
- (This is the voice of experience. I had to reconfigure a proposed system due
- to the fact that an LC II has only one slot and would require a graphics
- adapter board in order to use a full-page monitor, while the IIsi with only one
- slot had the graphics adapter built-in. I needed that one slot for an ethernet
- card ...).
-
- The lower end Macintosh machines are no more 'upgradable' than the Mega STe or
- TT. The PowerBooks aren't 'upgradeable' using any cogent definition of the
- word.
-
- -- David Paschall-Zimbel
-