Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine) (05/19/91)
Many thanx to all who answered my questions a few days ago about the 510ST. With all the info I got, I said what the hell, and payed $250 for an 520ST with colour monitor. Now I am looking for 'things' for it, and am hoping someone can help me out here. First off, I need some real telecom software, something where i can up/download stuff. I am using the VT52 emulator on the Language disk and find I cant transfer stuff. Some poeple pointed out there is way to add memory yourself, as long as you can handle a soldering iron. Ive been an electronics tech for about 4 years now, and I can hold my own with an iron :-) Can someone give me some more info? From the sounds of it, Ill probably just pull out some 64k RAM chips and replace them with 256k ones... I havent yet pulled apart the machine to verify this (next on the bill for tonight) Can someone supply me with info on a second floppy? Someone had mailed me info on a company that sells hard drives, but I deleted the mail :-( I am looking at a pin out for the external floppy port, but I dont see a power line, so I guess the external box needs its own power supply. And on floppy disks, bricks on the single sided drive! Any way to get double sided? And finally, bricks on the keyboard! I am spoiled by the DEC LK201 keyboard (VT320... some people dont consider this a nice keyboard, but I do). Any way to get a new keyboard, one that feels a little more realistic? Many thanx Billy D'Augustine Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com