871579l@aucs.uucp (Todd Lowe) (01/15/90)
I am looking for expansion ram for my Trumpcard 500. The adds say expandable internally to 4 Megs. What they don't say is its a proprietary connector and few people seem to sell the proper board. I'm looking for 2 Megs on a board expandable to 4 or 8. If anyone knows where I might get one please let me know. Thanx Todd Lowe 871579l@aucs
stephen@hpdml93.HP.COM (Stephen Holmstead) (01/16/90)
Todd Lowe writes: >I am looking for expansion ram for my Trumpcard 500. The adds say expandable >internally to 4 Megs. What they don't say is its a proprietary connector >and few people seem to sell the proper board. > >I'm looking for 2 Megs on a board expandable to 4 or 8. > >If anyone knows where I might get one please let me know. IVS (the makers of the Trumpcard) are the only ones who sell the expansion boards. The boards come in 512kb, 1Mb, 2Mb, or 4Mb sizes. IVS uses SIMMs on the boards (due to limited real-estate available in the expansion box for the A500). They DO NOT sell these boards UNPOPULATED!!! (That's pretty stupid if you ask me). Also, the RAM boards are really pricey! I have studied the expansion port and you should be able to make a small adapter that will convert the DIN to edge-card. They seem to pass all the bus lines so it should work with 'standard' expansion devices. You might even be able to convert the DIN to an A2000 card socket format and use a card for the A2000 in it (I have not looked at it that closely, yet). ____ ____ | / /_ __\ | Disk 0S/2 == 1/2 OS (Leo Schwab) Stephen Holmstead | | / / /_/ | | Mechanism // ...!hplabs!hpdmlge!stephen |___\ / /___| Division \X/ Amiga stephen@hpdmlge.boi.hp.com