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[tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) writes...]
> From article by dynasoft!john@stag.UUCP (John Stanley):
> | [george@electro.UUCP (George Reimer) writes...]
> |> 
> |> I carefully cleaned out the holes for the four chips, soldered
> |> in 4 sockets and then inserted the 256k x 4  drams mailed to me
> |> from IC Express, and volia! I had a 1040STfm! 
> |> 
> | 
> |   It's amazing it was that simple...  :^)
> | 
> |   Even more so when you realize it takes 16 x 256k (bit)
> | chips to add 512K bytes of memory...     ==
> 
> Read carefully --> 256k x 4!!!! chips --> 4 x 256k x 4 = 16 x 256k

  Tim, how about if you "read carefully".  See anything in his message
that mentions 4 bit wide chips??

  Nowhere in his message (or any previous msg I saw) had there been any
indication that anyone has been using 256k x 4bit chips for ST memory
expansion.  All 512k memory upgrades I'd heard of (before this) for the
520 (including soldered-in ones) used 16 x (256k x 1bit) chips.  If 4bit
wide chips are useable (required?) on the newer ST's, that's fine, but he
really should have mentioned he was using 4 bit wide chips.  Anything
else is misleading to novice users (and those uninformed about the
change) which was the entire reason I posted my reply.

  For the record, I've been told by a couple of other people that 4 bit
wide chips are now being used on some of the newer ST's so this may be
the "new standard".  On the other hand, I spoke to my local ST dealer
about this and they were also surprised to hear about 4 bit wide chips
being used in a 520.  If this is common knowledge, it's somehow managed
to bypass my corner of the universe which means it may cause confustion
for other people as well...

  My msg was not seriously-critical twords George.  That should have been
obvious from the smiley face...  He was leaving out some important piece
of information and I just tried to make it obvious by my message.

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John Stanley <dynasoft!john@stag.UUCP>
Software Consultant / Dynasoft Systems