Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!ucbvax!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 256K DRAMS Message-ID: <9528@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 2 Jun 88 22:08:40 GMT References: <3051@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 30 In article <3051@crash.cts.com> tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM (Todd South) writes: >Okay, call me ignorant, but I still can't believe that! How many Amiga >owners here have 1meg sockets on their motherboards? How many IBM's, Mac's, >Apple ]['s, ST's, VT100's, Mac ]['s, or any other computers that are currently >being used in the educational or personal or small business markets are >actually using 1 meg chips on a regular basis? How many of you think that >you will pay for a motherboard upgrade so that you have 1 meg sockets only? >How many of you think that computer manufacturers will give you free mother- >board upgrades? (Commodore? not likely, Apple Inc.? No way!!!) er.. Apple ]['s and vt100's have no need for extra memory. especially the vt100. I don't know about ST's but I suspect that they use 1/4 meg chips. Mac's aren't self-upgradable to my knowledge but again they probably use 1/4 meg chips. IBM's vary depending on the manufacturer and the expansion board. Some use 1 meg chips other's use different stuff. Mac II's use SIMM's which I understand can come in 1 meg or 1/4 meg models. For us ... at least the ASDG 8MI board uses 1 meg chips. 2 megs of 1 meg chips about 1.5 months ago cost me $500 and the board ran ~$350. I think there's another board for A2000's which uses SIMM's. thumbnail review of the 8MI board: I like the looks of the board, the manual and the software. The board looks like ones I'd find inside a Vax. The manual is user-friendlied but otherwise has lots of good information in it. The software is complete and does a good job (especially the rrd). -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy<---- s.k.a.: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Goodbye RAH.