[comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware] A simple memory card for AT bus

davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (02/04/91)

  This is infor on a useful memory board for AT bus memory for 286 or
SX. If that's not of intrest move on.

  The board is called the BocaRam AT-plus. I just got a pair because
both my home systems were full on the motherboard, and even a real 386DX
works better with more memory, even AT memory.

  It configures from DOS (big minus for me, I don't have DOS at all on
one system) into an EEPROM. It supports both EMS, backfill for regular
memory, and extended memory.

  The bottom line is that I spent less than a minute configuring each
board, I used the 'advinst' advanced installation (how simple can the
'install' be, the advanced was only four questions) and both boards are
running fine.

  I paid $310 for each board with 4MB populated (DRAM) and $2 for UPS
Blue. Got mine from ELKCO in Boston (1-800-24-ELKCO) who also supplied
my Cyrix 387SX.

  If you can put memory on the motherboard it's usually faster, but if
you need a low cost board which works well with Xenix and Dell V.4, and
doesn't fight with the NEAT chipset, then this might be useful.

  No connection other than a delighted user running much faster now.

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nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (02/04/91)

In article <3061@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:

     This is infor on a useful memory board for AT bus memory for 286 or
   SX. If that's not of intrest move on.

     The board is called the BocaRam AT-plus.

I'd like to second Bill's recommendation.  A faculty member here at Clarkson
got one, and he asked me to install it, fearing the worst.  Ha!  He
could have installed it himself with his eyes shut (or nearly so :).

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