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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: memory upgrade chips for Wyse PC's
Summary: What are the right chips, and what should they cost?
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Date: 15 Jun 89 04:59:26 GMT
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  The place at which I am working for the summer just bought six Wyse
PC IBM-compatible workstations as part of a package to automate their
plant.

  Unfortunately, the incredibly honest reseller that packaged and sold
us the whole set-up managed to sell us five of those workstations with
only 512k, which is apparently not enough memory for the workstations
to be able to print from within the software packages we are using.

  Despite the fact that we have not gotten the operation we were told
we would be getting when we bought the system, we are being told by
this guy that he's going to make us pay for at least half of the cost
of upgrading the memory in the workstations.

  I told him that I would like to look into buying the chips and doing
the upgrade myself, since it (I assume) involves only plugging the new
chips in, so I asked him what type of chips, and how many, I would
need to upgrade each workstation.

  He told me I would need "18 256k 120 nanosecond" chips for each
machine, and he said the cost would be about $150 for each
workstation.

  I am not convinced he knows what he is talking about, but I have not
done a lot of work with PC's and memories so I don't even know where
to start looking to find out what we really need (and, of course, the
manuals that came with the workstations don't have schematics or chip
details, I don't think).

  So, my questions are, what kind of chips is this guy talking about;
is he giving me correct information; if not, what chips should I be
looking for (will Radio Shack have them, or will I need to go
somewhere more specialized, or are the Wyse specific chips); and how
much should they cost?

  I am sorry I can't provide more information, but this guy isn't
exactly a fountain of knowledge and I'm a bit out of my field here.

  Please reply via E-mail only, since this question is certainly not
really of general interest, and because I don't read either
comp.sys.ibm.pc or sci.electronics regularly.

  Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

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