[comp.sys.atari.st] SIPs and SIMMs

01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) (02/18/90)

Alan Pratt made the statement that Atari puts in SIPs or SIMMs depending
on what is cheapest at the time. First of all, I am not very hardware
literate and the comment does not mean a heck of a lot to me on the
technical side. However, on the support side, it means that I cannot
tell someone what is inside his/her STe until I open up the box. Atari
Canada told me that the STe may or may not have sockets for SIMMs to boost
the memory to 4 megs. How can anyone promote a computer when he has to
take his chances and guess what is under the hood? What a nightmare
situation.

I would like to see an official Atari statement about (i) large screen
monitor support and (ii) memory upgrade capability for the STe. NO DISCLAIMERS
on this one please. What are the official specs for the STe for these two
features? If Alan cannot give an official spec, get someone else to do it.