Article-I.D.: smu.34700006
Posted: Fri Aug  9 15:25:00 1985
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Nf-From: smu!hu    Aug  9 14:25:00 1985


	Primary upgrade board (to 512K): $520
        Secondary "      "    (to 768K): $500
	Rom upgrade                    : $ 75
	single board upgrade (w/o ROM upgrade which is still needed): $780 

 The first two boards are from TI, the last one from Western Automation.

Above are some price quotes for the memory upgrade of the TIPC. Does any one
know a better price? Compared with a multi-function card for IBM-PC, these
price is well too high!!

hu@smu

Article-I.D.: gypsy.53600001
Posted: Tue Aug 13 14:02:00 1985
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Nf-From: gypsy!emery    Aug 13 14:02:00 1985



One reason IBM PC boards are much cheaper is quantity.  Let's face it,
there are a few more IBM's around than TI.

However, one additional source for memory boards for TI is Persyst.  I
have a Persyst board in my PC.  Mine has one rs-232 port, clock, and 
192k.  I forget how much it cost, but it was much less than TI's
stuff when I bought it.  

However, there is an advantage to the Western Automation boards, in
that with an S1, you can get a hard disk interface, and later on
buy a winchester drive for your TI.

One final note, TI issued a ROM upgrade.  If you have an older TI, you
may need this upgrade to address more than 256k.  As I recall, TI 
soaks you somewhere between $40-$60 for the new ROM chips.

**FLAME ON** 
It pisses me off to pay for this ROM upgrade when the @#$%^& machine
was supposed to address 720kb when I bought it.  In particular, it
bugs the %$^&*($%^ out of me to have to pay more than $10 for $1.00 of
silicon.   TI, ARE YOU LISTENING?!?!?!?
**FLAME OFF**

Hope this helps.

				Dave Emery
				Siemens Research
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Article-I.D.: waltz.31900011
Posted: Sun Aug 18 18:24:00 1985
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Nf-From: waltz!haddock    Aug 18 17:24:00 1985


/* Written  2:02 pm  Aug 13, 1985 by gypsy!emery in waltz:net.micro.ti */


	>One reason IBM PC boards are much cheaper is quantity.  Let's face
	>it, there are a few more IBM's around than TI.

^a few^far^

	>One final note, TI issued a ROM upgrade.  If you have an older TI,
	>you may need this upgrade to address more than 256k.  As I recall,

Not quite.  Having fully populated Persyst boards in all of my
older TIPC systems the absence of the "new" ROMs prevents it from
addressing the top 16-bytes of 512K memory.  B{F}D!  It hasn't
caused me any problems and I tend to push my TIPCs quite bit.

	>TI  soaks you somewhere between $40-$60 for the new ROM chips.

That's life.  I s'pose that MOST anyone else would be doing the same thing.

	>TI, ARE YOU LISTENING?!?!?!?

Well, some of us are but not anyone that has to do with TIPC's.  Those
folks are in Austin and aren't on any external network.

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