NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/hardware/15083

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: VXL-30 ramboard
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:03:12 +1000
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Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Craig Keenan) writes:
> This is a pain not a good.  If you want more memory in your board, you have to
> take out and trash or sell at a loss 2mb of memory you already own! that is not
> good.  If they were crafty they should have used the 1X4s (dense chips) and
> had a jumper to select 2,4, or 8 megabyte configurations.  That way someone
> could just add more memory to the existing memory and take no losses.  Also,
> word to the wise...don't buy the vxl-30 accl. with the 68882 in it, it is not
> worth it.  just buy the fpu-less board then insert a 68881 which you can buy
> for a song.

        Yeah, the "2 or 8 Mb only" is a pain. Some people have trouble getting
their hands on a 6888x in the PLCC format that the VXL-30 uses. I had to
settle for a 16 Mhz 68881 for my 25Mhz VXL-30 (I don't run the 881 at 25 Mhz,
I have a seperate 16 Mhz clock for it), and I had to get the 881 and the
16 Mhz clock for it from 2 seperate sources.


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