🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi.

I can understand your apprehension concerning 3rd party memory boards, but
I just thought I'd throw in my 2 bytes worth.

I've owned a Levco Monster Mac 2 Meg clip on board for about 6 months.
It's on a 128K mac, with the ROM/Drive upgraded.  I had to remove the board
to have the ROM/Drive changed.  Hardest part was convincing the Apple
technician that yes, I *really* wanted to put a ROM/Drive upgrade in
a 128K (-:

I've only had one minor problem with it.  At one point, I was transporting
my mac a lot, and the jarring it received loosened the MonsterMac's "Clip
Chip", which secures the board to the motherboard's cpu.  It took 5 mins
to correct, and continues to function perfectly (this was 3 months ago).

I bought the MM on the advice of friends who own them.  One has been using
his for about a year and a half, and says "no problems".

I went for Levco because they had the best track record (least complaints,
problems, as far as I can tell).  The board works great, and comes with
a SCSI port, so any machine with 128K ROM's will be able to use a SCSI
drive.  I have yet to find a piece of software that works on a vanilla
mac, but not on my Monster Mac (in other words, so far, 100% software
compatibility).

The only down side: The Levco upgrades (there are several others, which
I'm sure you all know) tend to be a little more expensive than others,
but I think it was worth it, since I have had almost no problems with
it, and everything (software) works on it.  The MM also came with
a piezo-electric fan (even with my ear against the vents, I can't
hear it).  Although I have heard people slag these fans, mine keeps
the mac pretty cool, even when in use for 12 hours.  Mind you, the
climate is not exceptionally hot here in Victoria.

I have no connections with Levco, etc, etc.  I am just an extremely
satisfied customer.

PS: the MM comes in two flavors: clip-on and solder-on.  If you consider
    it, go for the clip-on.  If your mac ever needs repairs, it's
    5 mins to remove the entire MM, so no techie can refuse to touch it.

Ta!

k)
Org