phaedrus@flatline.UUCP (james hartman) (07/21/88)
Recently, I decided the time had come to do away with "ERROR 207" for
good. Thus, I entered into the Chip Race and joined the teeming masses
in the attempt to find more memory. I called a company (which shall,
for now, remain nameless) and got an answering service. "Sure, we have
the 512K board, it'll only be (insert very low figure here)." I said,
fine, send it to me.
Tonight, I receive a phone call. "There's a two month back-order on those
boards. Now, if you'd like, I can send you a new experimental board that
uses one-meg chips instead of 512K chips. It should run cooler and use a
lot less power." I said, fine, go ahead and send me one. Now, the difference
in price between the two is not inconsiderable. The immediate questions I have
are:
1) Am I being taken?
2) Can four one-meg chips be configured to be 512K in a CoCo 3?
3) Is this a silly posting, and should I have known enough about hardware
to not have to have posted it in the first place? (No flamage, just
honesty, thanks.)
Email me answers, and if necessary, I'll post a summary. Thanks in advance.
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*******************************************************************************sneezy@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Frank Farm) (07/23/88)
James, I know you requested responses to be sent directly to you, but I kept getting rubber mail no matter what address I tried. Sorry. In article <1162@flatline.UUCP> phaedrus@flatline.UUCP (james hartman) writes: > >1) Am I being taken? >2) Can four one-meg chips be configured to be 512K in a CoCo 3? >3) Is this a silly posting, and should I have known enough about hardware > to not have to have posted it in the first place? (No flamage, just > honesty, thanks.) 1) Probably not. In my opinion, it would depend on how reputable the company is (i.e., how long they've been in business). 2) I think so. I knew a guy in Garden Grove, CA, who said he had one meg of RAM under OS-9, but he built it himself. I guess it took the third-party companies awhile to figure it out. 3) Absolutely not. It's my belief that for every person that asks a "silly" question, there are a hundred people who wanted to know the answer to the same silly question but were afraid to ask. :-) In any case, since I recently upgraded to 512K (with a $150 Shack upgrade), I'd be interested to know how your upgrade turns out and how much you had to pay for it. +-------------------------+ | Frank Farm | | sneezy@ucscb.ucsc.edu | +-------------------------+