On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Scott McLauchlan wrote:
I collect home micros, and I recently acquired a Mac
128K. However, it's
been quite heavily modified with contemporary third-party add-ons. It's
been taken up to 1M RAM and it's had a SCSI interface installed.
The memory has been taken up to 512K by removing the 64K x 1 bit RAM chips
and replacing them with 256K x 1 bit chips, plus adding a few discrete
components (not hard, considering the 128K and 512K Macs shared the same PC
board). It has then been taken up to 1M by adding a third-party 512K RAM
expansion board, which plugs into one of the RAM sockets (the chip it
displaces being installed onto the expansion board), and is connected to
the address decoding by several flying leads.
The SCSI interface has been installed by removing the ROM chips, plugging a
daughterboard into the empty ROM sockets, and plugging the ROM chips into
the daughterboard. The SCSI socket replaces the cover over the battery in
the back of the Mac.
It sounds like you have a pretty amazing Mac 128K! Why the hell would you
want to tear it back down to its puny original configuration? This Mac is
a testament to the expandability of a machine that no one thought
expandable.
LEAVE IT BE!
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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