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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 23:19:35 EST
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I am helping to design upgrades for the macintosh.  The lowest
level upgrade is for 1M byte.  That hopefully will cost only
about $1000 or less.  The 1 meg board will go inside of the mac,
and the mac will look no different from the outside.  However,
it will have 1 meg of memory plus the memory that the mac already
had (1.5 meg total if you had a 512K mac) that runs twice as
fast as the regular mac ram because it is DMA.  We have designed
boards going up to 8 meg.  We have implemented our design up
to the 4 meg level.  Here is what we are planning to do:  You
can buy the 1 meg upgrade, and it will be internal with a connector
that is invisible from the outside of the mac (like the interrupt
and reset switches) on the bottom right vents.  If you connect
the card-cage that we are designing to the connector, you can
add several additional things... more memory, a color board we
have designed, a speedup board, and some others...  The card
cage has a case like the mac's, and it fits snugly under the
mac, adding 5 inches to the mac's height, and no inches to it's
footprint.

The question:  Is this what you guys in netland really want?
Do you have any questions or suggestions?
Please let me know, because we are really doing this to make
the macintosh a REALLY serious machine.  Since our product will
be compatible with the hyper drive, and any other hard drives,
the mac can become sort of like a mini-computer.  Imagine 8 Meg
of ram and a 192 meg hard drive...

		Dave Kliman
		70 Glen Cove Drive
		Glen Head, NY  11545
		(516) 671-1301
		to be found somewhere near sjuvax!drexel!dave
					   presby!drexel!dave


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