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- From: xdab@kimbark.uchicago.edu (David Baird)
- Subject: Re: proposal to help all those people with six-slot Mac IIs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.214502.3846@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan28.212148.3074@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:45:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.212148.3074@midway.uchicago.edu> jcav@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >Apple no longer produces any machine that uses the original desktop
- >Macintosh II case design. Such machines can be upgraded to the level of the
- >Mac IIfx, or they can have various third-party accelerators added, but there
- >is no really clean way to bring these machines to current top-of-the-Mac-
- >line standards of performance and features.
- >
- >My proposal would be for Apple to design and produce a new version of the
- >Quadra 950 motherboard, rearranged as required to fit in the six-slot desktop
- >case. As far as I can tell, this would allow plenty of board area to lay
- >out the components, although there might not be room for all of the 950's
- >RAM and VRAM SIMM sockets. The chief obstacle that I see in such a
- >redesign would be locating the Quadra video, ethernet, and sound input ports,
- >since the six-slot case doesn't have any mounting holes for them. The
- >solution I came up with is to design a relatively simple daughterboard that
- >connects to the main board at the location of the rightmost NuBus connector
- >in the II/IIx/IIfx boards. The would be a permanently mounted board, the
- >sole purpose of which would be to hold those three connectors, which would
- >pass through the case at the existing slot popout. The other slot locations
- >would remain free for the 950's five NuBus slots.
- >
- >What do you all think? (especially Dale Adams)
-
- I, for one, think this is a wonderful idea. Although I love my IIfx, I
- would not be adverse to upgrading it to a newer generation of machine,
- if possible.
-
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