ta-tu@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Todd Underwood) (02/23/90)
I am interested in finding out from all of the many gurus out there if there exists a way to add memory (fastmem) to an Amiga 1000 which _does_not_ have the 256K cartridge which fits in the front of every 1000 on the face of this earth. I work for a Psych Lab here at Columbia where one of the cartridges for one of the 1000's has gone bad. They have a very old (but quite reliable and handy) ASDG memory pack which hooks into the expansion port (4.5meg). It would be no problem whatsoever to simply use the amiga with the extra memory without that 256K. The difficulty is that we cannot get anything to recognize the additional memory without that cartridge. Any ideas? Please respond via e-mail to ta-tu@cunixd.cc.columia.edu. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I am philosophically (really dialectically now that I think about it), categorically and morally opposed to long signatures (especially ones which use big adverbs). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) (02/24/90)
How about just fixing the 256k expansion? I believe it only has the 8 memory chips in it, and I believe they are standard 64k x 4 configuration that go for less than $5 now. That assumes that there isn't some mechanical problem, like someone drilled a hole in it or some other such dumb thing (like a previous owner did to the heater in one of my cars ;-).