icsg8034@khan.cs.montana.edu (Kubat) (06/04/91)
I am hearing conflicting reports about memory upgrades for the model 50 (not 50Z). The people at ComputerLand have told me that the motherboard will not support the 2MB kit, yet I've seen adds in the magazines for them. Has anyone made this upgrade? Also, does anyone sell hard disks for this system which cost less than $1100!? The original 20MB is making me claustrophobic, yet the best I've seen is a 48MB replacement for this outrageous sum! ------ Terry Kubat Internet: icsg8034@cs.montana.edu 410 Roberts Hall (CS dept.) Montana State University home (406) 587-4262 Bozeman, MT 59717 office (406) 994-4835 -- Terry Kubat Internet: icsg8034@cs.montana.edu 410 Roberts Hall (CS dept.) Montana State University home (406) 587-4262 Bozeman, MT 59717 office (406) 994-4835
FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) (06/05/91)
Here is the sad story which I got from IBM technical people. The model 50-201 (check your back panel for model number) is 1 meg on the mother board and cannot be upgraded. It has two 512K simms (two sided with 256K x 1 chips). All the other models of machine can handle more memory on the motherboard - even the model 30-286! So to upgrade the memory in your model 50-201 you must buy a memory card. I think the address space is 16 meg. I talked to a guy selling memory products who said he could sell me a Micro Channel card with 2 megs of standard simms (not IBM proprietary) expandable to 8 meg for $420. If this computer is used for business you might want to consider trading it in for a model 30-286. This is the same basic system in a smaller case and it'll take 4 meg on the motherboard. Model 50s are selling for just under $1000 so you can get maybe 25-30% of the purchase price of your new computer which will have a bigger hard drive. UPgrading your model 50 disk will cost you at least $600 for 30-40 meg. Might be time to take the $1800 under discussion here and put it into another machine. How do I know so much about this sad state of affairs? 25% of our PCs are model 50-201s. Would I like to give the design team on this model some 'user feedback'? No jury of my technical peers would convict me!! Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com And then I'd like to talk to the IBM keyboard design team.....