dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) (07/27/89)
I have a machine with 1 meg of ram on the motherboard and I know that I can
upgrade to 2 meg by filling in all the empty slots. What I would like to
know is wether or not it's possible to add the memory a half a meg at a time.
My wife kinda made a funny face at me when I told her how much money I wanted
to spend on "the stupid computer" so I am trying to find less expensive
alternatives. I know where I can get a half meg of 256k chips real cheap
so I figured if it was possible to add the memory to the motherboard a half
meg at a time I would be in good shape.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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David H. Brierley
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Work: dhb@rayssd.ray.com {sun,uunet,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!dhbpsfales@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Peter Fales) (07/28/89)
In article <774@galaxia.Newport.RI.US>, dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) writes: > I have a machine with 1 meg of ram on the motherboard and I know that I can > upgrade to 2 meg by filling in all the empty slots. Well, if you are willing to trade some time for dollars, and feel comfortable with a soldering iron there is another alternative. One meg machines have room on the motherboard for 2 megs of RAM: You can upgrade for the price of 36 256K DRAM's and a few miscellaneous components. It does take a lot of time to remove the solder from 36*18 holes and then solder the chips in, but it works. I did it to my system, and posted the instructions to the a net a while back. It turned out there are two styles of one meg boards. One was designed for one or two megs, the other was designed only for 512K or 2 meg, so they had to put in some extra wires for the one meg system. The former is easier to upgrade, but I have some notes from someone who upgraded the second style also. -- Peter Fales AT&T, Room 5B-420 2000 N. Naperville Rd. UUCP: ...att!peter.fales Naperville, IL 60566 Domain: peter.fales@att.com work: (312) 979-8031