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Re: AT&T 5620 questions

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1990 16:17
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In article <14223@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- a slipped disk) writes:
>Ages ago I had someone tell me they simply replaced the memory chips
>and everything just worked.

I think some newer 5620s already had faster timing chips on board,
so that chip didn't need replacement.

>Ages++ ago I tried using the official 1Meg upgrade to upgrade "my" 5620.
>Oops..  didn't work.  And we didn't try tracking down what was wrong.

It worked fine for us, on a couple of dozen 5620s.
Maybe you didn't ground yourself before working with the static-sensitive
chips?
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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: AT&T 5620 questions
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Date: 19 Feb 90 16:17:59 GMT
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