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- Subject: Re: Surely someone knows...
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 23:54:03 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- Stephen Matson asked about expanding the memory in a 520STFM..
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- The first step is to unsolder all 320 holes that Atari conveniently
- soldered shut for you..
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- Then, for safety's sake, install sockets in all RAM locations.
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- The bypass capacitors aren't particularly critical.. use small
- form factor .01 mfd units to make them fit..
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- The RAM chips are 256K x 1, 150 ns units. You can install faster chips
- if can get them cheaper..
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- The last step is to install three resistors in the RAS and CAS lines
- from the MMU chip to the new RAM bank. I forget the exact values of
- these resistors (don't have a 520STFM myself), but they're in the range
- of 150 ohms. There should already be three resistors going to the
- existing bank of RAM.. check to see what these resistors are, and
- emulate them in the new installation.
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- That should be it.. the operating system will recognize the new RAM
- automatically.. you don't have to do anything special to get it to
- see the full 1 Meg of memory..
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- Lastly.. enjoy..! (You'll love the new freedom of all that memory..!)
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- BobR
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