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- From: lcarpent@freenet.npiec.on.ca (Lennard Carpenter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: EDO RAM retrofit to RETINA Z-III
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 14:11:31 GMT
- Organization: Niagara Peninsula Free-Net
- Message-ID: <4fd0al$5sr@brain.npiec.on.ca>
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- Jim Boros (jboros@indirect.com) wrote:
- : I am considering a very agressive hack to my out of warranty Retina ZIII.
- : Removing the 80NS Zipps and wiring in a socket to take a 72 Pin EDO simm at
- : 4MB. Anyone try this or anything like it. I can imagine getting some real
- : good speeds out of this. With these chips below $150 it is tempting. And the
- : ZIPS can go in the 3000 motherboard.
- : Any thoughts appreciated.
- :
- : Jim
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- From what I understand it won't make a differance unless the rest of
- the hardware knows that it has EDO ram in it. What I would like to see
- and so would lots of others on here is how to put simms into the a3000.
- Can we buy some simm sockets and make adapters so they will pug into the
- the zipp sockets? I think that every a3000 owner would love a hack like
- this.--
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- // Amiga Corporation!
- // The Buttheads Blew IT!
- \\ // Len Carpenter
- \X/ ( lcarpent@freenet.npiec.on.ca )
- A Believer in Welland, Ontario Canada
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