Re: Need help identifying this drive?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> The UDC equipped Laser models have a redesigned case.
>> The air vents on top are in the shape of a check mark.
>> They swoosh down from left to right diagnally, then turn
>> and go directly horizontally.  The cases look great.
>> 
>> The earliest model Laser 128 without the UDC looked
>> ugly.  The air vents are all vertical and space relatively
>> widely apart.
>> 
>> The label is also different.  The earliest ugly Laser 128
>> had a metalic label with black lettering.  The later
>> Laser models had plastic molded metalic characters.
>
>Cool, then I have the later one...I think I've run into the earlier one
>before though...Oh, hey, I wonder...did the Laser 128 have any PLCC chips
>in it? Maybe that memory upgrade I was asking about way back is for a
>clone?

I think the Laser does have some PLCC chips, but they
are soldered to the motherboard.  The Laser's memory
connector looks sort of like an IDE disk drive connector.
Two rows of pins (or sockets).

The mystery of the Z-RAM continues...