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From: eric@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Query about an INTERNAL ram expansion board
Message-ID: <1543@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 14:41:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 19 14:41:36 1986
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Reply-To: eric@ulysses.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky)
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>clock.  The shocker was the price: $349.00!!!!  I assume that if you
>hooked this baby up it would use up the power allocated to the external
>expansion connector (i.e. anything you plug into the external port must
>be self powered).

Don't assume so much - find out for sure. Most internal expansions
have the following drawbacks:

	1) Void your warranty
	2) Draw more power off *internal* connections than they were
		rated for. Only the expansion connector is rated to
		take around one amp current draw, nothing else.
	3) Generate more internal heat (wanna melt your case?)
	4) Will never Auto-Config. What happens when you get auto
		config stuff. What if you try and AddMem your board
		into an already configured address space?

Caveat Emptor!
Eric

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