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Post #3 by trag
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateFri, 3 Apr 2009 - 22:17
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/128k-512k-supermac-enhance-upgrade-board.17017/
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Am I the lone soul on this site with old Mac magazines? Surely there must be someone else who has some and could take a peek for us.
I threw most of mine out many years ago. Too much stuff. Of course, now I have a new pile of old stuff which is too much.

That looks like a fairly standard implementation for the day. Replacement 68000 running at the regular old 8 MHz, memory decoder logic, SIMM sockets for memory expansion, and a SCSI controller chip and SCSI connector. So you'd need the newer ROMs in order to get the benefit of the SCSI port.

That's actually quite similar to the NewBridge/NewLife upgrade for the same machine. The NewLife upgrade had eight SIMM sockets, IIRC and could use the on-board 512K of RAM ( couldn't use the 128K in a 128K machien) so one could install a pair of 1 MB SIMMs and six much more affordable 256KB SIMMs and have 4 MB of RAM.

There was a point where 1 MB SIMMs were over $100 each but 256KB SIMMs were about $5 or free depending on how hard you looked.

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