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- From: rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Robert Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: QUESTION: add A3000 mem only 4MB/time?!?
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 15:53:37 -0700
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- stimber@tbag.org (Scott Timberlake) writes:
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- >NN> I have a 5MB A3000/25 (1 Chip, 4 Fast), and will be buying from a fr
- end
- >NN> 8MB of SCZips. I forget exactly, but someone told me A3000 SCZips m
- st
- >NN> be added in increments of 4MB. Is this true? If so, then I should
- nly
- >NN> buy 5MB of those SCZips (move 1MB to Chip for a total of 2MB Chip; 3
- B
- >NN> Fast left; add 5MB of newly-bought SCZips to Fast area for total of
- MB
- >NN> Fast==>10MB A3000)? Please tell me it's not true. If it is, I gues
-
- >NN> I'll have to buy another 2MB...
-
- >Chip memory is comprised of DIPs, not ZIPs. When you install the ZIPs yo
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- >will have 12m fast & 1m chip. You will have to buy (8) 80ns 256x4 DIPs t
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- >give your 3000 2m of chip ram. BTW, all 3000s were sold with 1m fast/1m
- hip
- >and the fast memory was made from DIPs so that you could just move them
- o
- >the 2nd meg of chip memory. Did you buy the machine used? Either way, I
- >can't imagine what happened to that other meg of ram...
- > Scott
-
- > * Q-Blue 2.0 [NR] *
- =====
- Early A3000s, came with the 2 mb configuration.
- The one on which I am typing right now came from Commodore
- with one meg chip and four meg of Zip fast ram.
- I had to buy both kinds of RAM to expand this A3000.
-
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- rdavis@nyx.net Robert (Bob) Davis
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