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Re: Ancient //c Upgrade Question



tlippe@jeffnet.efn.org (Tom Lippe) wrote:

>In article <448044$17ue@usenetz1.news.prodigy.com>, TTSH35A@prodigy.com (Phil Abel) says:
>>
>>Had some good Apple II finds at an auction I attended this past weekend...
>> got a platinum Apple 5.25" floppy for $5, and a complete //c system for 
>>$20. Not bad for a day's work, eh?
>>
>>Upon playing around with the //c, I tried peeking that memory address to 
>>see what version it was, and found that I had the antique //c version 
>>(pre memory expansion port). Opening the machine up, I confirmed this. 

>The free upgrade was to fix a serial port problem, does not upgrade you to the newer system board
> with ram connector :(

But you can expand the memory of these older IIc's as well. It is not
a hopeless case.

Virtually,
Warr
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