cjs@sppy00.UUCP (Christopher Schaller) (02/27/90)
Hello people. Im looking into expanding my system. I have a A500 w/ 1 meg memory, and external drive. I would like to expand to 3 megs. Does anyone have any suggestions, about what is best? I use Sculpt 3d, Turbosilver, and other graphics and animation programs, and 1 meg just dosent hack it if you want longer more detailed animations. Any help would be appreciated Chris Schaller.
huebner@aero.aero.org (Robert E. Huebner) (11/15/90)
In article <1990Nov14.004642.9563@ns.network.com>, allen@ns.network.com (Allen Middleton) writes: |> I need about 1 meg of fast RAM in addition to my 1 meg chip RAM, and am |> looking for recommended memory boards. What about those offered from |> Free Spirit, Expansion Technologies, or ICD. Any opinions? I have recently been looking into this, so I'll summarize my experiences-- The Expansion System's BaseBoard and the ADRAM system seem about the same: remove your A501 in favor of this new board. A friend using the baseboard needs to run a program (cRAM) to configure the memory, but this is because he wanted to setup as a contiguous block. Both require adaptors to the Gary chip. The majority of dealers and users in this area seem to have chosen the BaseBoard for one reason or another. A new alternative to the A501 replacement is the new SupraRAM 500RX. I called Supra and they stated a shipping date in December. This system is a narrow case that uses the A500 expansion slot (with pass-through). Although usually passthrough is risky, Supra assured me it would work with all of the harddisk controllers I asked about. Computability set the 1 Meg price at arppox. $138 in the latest ads. It is expandable to 8 Meg. (Does anyone know what type of chips it uses? I forgot to ask... here's hoping for (cheap) SIMMS) Also according to dealers (Creative Computers in LA), if you change from an A501 to a larger trap-door system, you will need to re-configure some jumpers relating to the ECS Agnus. I would assume the manuals for the expansion boards would detail this. ---- Robert Huebner huebner@aerospace.aero.org The Aerospace Corporation ----