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...have an external drive for your old-style Mac, consider adding a new 800k internal drive. The new drive holds twice as much as the old 400k drives. This is particularly helpful if you like storing a large number of fonts on your system disk, and also want to be able to store a few papers or other files...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Computer Upgrades: Giving an Old Mac Some New Tricks | 10/22/1986 | See Source »

...Mac with the older 400k internal disk drive, and are considering buying an external drive, think twice about the increased capacity internal drive. Although it will take longer to copy disks with only one drive, the increased per-disk storage space is worth the trade...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Computer Upgrades: Giving an Old Mac Some New Tricks | 10/22/1986 | See Source »

...SCSI logic board, which comes standard on the Mac Plus, adds several features unnecessary for the average student, but advantageous for special applications. With the board, users can add up to four megabytes of RAM and hook-up peripherals such as hard disk drives through the SCSI port. A SCSI upgrade for an old 512k Mac costs $418 plus installation from Harvard's computer store...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Computer Upgrades: Giving an Old Mac Some New Tricks | 10/22/1986 | See Source »

...thinking about adding a hard drive, the SCSI is a must because other hard drive interfaces follow different standards, and thus might be incompatible with some software. You must have 512k and the new ROMs/800k disk drive before upgrading an old Mac with the new logic board. Additionally, the SCSI port changes the connectors on your printer and modem ports, requiring additional adapter cables (about...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Computer Upgrades: Giving an Old Mac Some New Tricks | 10/22/1986 | See Source »

Sell Your Mac...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Computer Upgrades: Giving an Old Mac Some New Tricks | 10/22/1986 | See Source »

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