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Article #245520ST 1Mb upgrade hints
From: Landon Dyer
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1986 02:19
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1986 02:19
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Make sure you use heavy gauge wire (#22 or so) across the tops of the RAM chips, and from the memory controller to the chips. Using something like wire-wrap wire is not a good idea. Stretch the wires taut across the tops of the chips and point-solder; don't leave any slack. (We've seen upgrades with the wires kind of looped from one chip to the next. We don't know /how/ they worked....) Whether or not you need the resistors depends on the RAM chips and the memory controller you've got. Some memory controllers have faster rise and fall times, and generate undershoot which can fry the RAMs unless they're protected by the resistors. The resistors should be placed close to the memory controller (not near the RAM chips). -Landon
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!orsvax1!pyrnj!caip!lll-crg!lll-lcc!vecpyr!atari!dyer From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: 520ST 1Mb upgrade hints Message-ID: <147@atari.UUcp> Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 21:19:05 EST Article-I.D.: atari.147 Posted: Fri Mar 21 21:19:05 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Mar-86 02:49:25 EST Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 15 Keywords: Atari ST, 1 Megabyte, Bloody Resistors