[comp.sys.atari.st] What speed Ram?

jlong@radc.af.mil (Jeff Long) (10/16/90)

I have seen this info posted before, but sorry, I forgot what
was said.  
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With DRAM prices now down to $5.00 for 1MegX1 120ns chips,
I feel that I could afford the $80.00 to upgrade my stock 1040ST to
2.5 meg using the "socketed 2.5 Meg upgrade" text file that was posted
to the net  last year.

Is 120ns a safe speed, or should I go with 100ns??

Anyone have any experience with the upgrade that I mentioned?  It was
the one where you swapped 256K chips (16) for 1Meg ones.


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emerson@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Emerson Mei) (10/17/90)

I did this memory upgrade twice. Once on a 1040st and once on a 520stfm. The
important thing is to figure out which lines are being rerouted because the are not pin compatible.  The plans are good but not perfect. The new 1040st mothter-boards are very different tahn the layout of the motherboard he described. All iin all it was a lot of work 8 to 10 hours. the plans have a liitle flaw in them.\

If anyone has any questions email me at emerson@stat.berk.EDU..seeya.......