[net.micro.atari] 1M on a 520-ST

G.DYER@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Landon Dyer) (02/01/86)

Atari has made no special effort to prevent someone from upgrading
a 520-ST to 1Mbyte.  I think that some early memory controllers had
some problems with drive capability for a second bank of RAM chips,
but none of those controllers made it into production machines.

I have heard horror stories about companies doing 520-ST upgrades to
1Mbyte (one developer said his machine came back with only 2 of the
6 OS PROMs, and that the machine had been busted in other, more
subtle ways.)  BE CAREFUL!  Go to someone reputable; make sure that
you know that they know what they are doing ....

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Atari should be on usenet presently, within two weeks, tops.  When
we are finally and solidly up, I'll let you know.


-landon
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