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In article <DIBB.90Oct29090302@sunrise.clarkson.edu> dibb@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Jim Dibb) writes:
>In article <21287@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> hannanp@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Paula Hannan) writes:
>
>> I am currently trying to increase the memory in my Zenith 
>> Z-286 machine in order to use Windows 3.0.  This machine,
>> which is two years old, currently has the minimum 512k.
>> Is there any way to avoid using Zenith memory and the 
>>  associtated outrageous prices?  
>
>I used a "KW" (I'll get the full name and send it out later) board on my
>Z-248 to raise the 512k to 640 and add 2M of EXTENDED memory. Through
>our campus computer center the board was $90 and the chips were ~$45/0.5 Meg.

I have a True Blue IBM memory expansion board in my Z-286, which pushes
it up to 6.5M (started with 512k, backfilled, and used the remaining memory
of the 6M board for extended, which is all it'll do). Since I'm running
Minix 1.5.10 rather than mess-dos, I can use it all as real memory! (Now the
next step is to replace the cpu board with a 386, once I find someone 
selling passive backplane 386 boards) I don't know enough about W3.0 to 
know whether extended will work for you, but there are programs (Above Disc?)
which fake expanded using extended. BTW, the board has custom IBM
512k simms, so part numbers would probably be useless.

Bill.
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