Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Clark Martin wrote: > >> Bruce Johnson wrote: >> >>> Ahem. I spent $138 ($69 per stick, which was a *gargantuan* steal at >>> the time) to update my Mac Plus to 512 KB. At those prices, my G4 >>> would take $138,000 to fill up, or very nearly twice the price of our >>> house when we bought it. >> How did you update a 1Mb computer to .5 Mb. > > Durn CRS. You're right. I went from 1 mb (four 128LK sticks) to 2.5 > (two 128K, 2 1MB) not down to 512K...so the price is down to $69,0000, > so it's LESS than my house...
That would be 4x or 2x 256Kb sticks. Recalculate > > This was the scary, scary "no turning back now" update that required > you to snip a resistor on the MB.... Did the plus have the snip the resistor? I remember doing it on an SE but I can't recall doing it on any Pluses. In any event it didn't worry me, I just cut the resistor in the middle of the lead and made a bit of a gap. If I needed to undo it I would just dab a bit of solder on it. I remember doing the upgrade on some friends SEs. I also remember busting off the snap that held one of the SIMMs in place. Fortunately I could wedge in a bit of wood to hold the SIMM in place. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
