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From: ravi@eneevax.UUCP (Ravi Kulkarni)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Re: Expansion on 520ST?? -No more RAM??
Message-ID: <371@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 20:45:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 20:45:45 1985
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Reply-To: ravi@eneevax.UUCP (Ravi Kulkarni)
Organization: U of Maryland, EE Dept., College Park, MD
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In article <1738@orca.UUCP> davecl@orca.UUCP (Dave Clemans) writes:
>This is a summary of some notes from Compuserve.
>
>The 520 can be upgraded to at least 2MB internally (all decoding is in
>place, etc.).  With extra decoding and improved cooling you could
>reach 15MB.  However, GEM would probably have to be modified to know
>about more than 2MB.  There will be a 1MB expansion board announced in
>about a month.  I think that the company is called "Dynamic Software Design".
>
>dgc

Actually the ST can be currently expanded to 1Mb so maybe you should
call it a 512k expansion board. The memory controller can handle up
to 4Mb in two banks of 2 Mb so when 1 Mbit chips come out its likely
that the ST's can be upgraded to 4Mb with some hardware hacking.

-ravi
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