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Article #4680Re: Free RAM from Atari
From: landry
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1989 16:04
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1989 16:04
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In article <10085@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, src@cs.odu.edu (Scott R. Chilcote) writes... " " I opened my Mega 2 last week to install TOS 1.4, and discovered a TRULY "AMAZING thing. The machine had a complete set of RAM chips, a total of "FOUR MEGABYTES worth, installed!! " " <etc> " " So, for the cost of soldering one pin of one IC to the motherboard, I "have a FOUR MEGABYTE computer!! " My guess is that this was a Mega 4 that didn't pass the checkout. In the same way that chip makers sell slow chips at slower specs, Atari is probably selling Mega 4 fallouts as Mega 2's. It's probably cheaper for them to give away the chips than to repair the boards (on the average). So you got lucky! chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!ames!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!enginr.dec.com!landry From: landry@enginr.dec.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Free RAM from Atari Message-ID: <5261@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 9 Oct 89 16:04:47 GMT Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Distribution: usa Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 19