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From: clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PCDITTO II
Summary: Don't be worried...be happy!
Message-ID: <1271@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 02:45:00 GMT
References: <890921.12375165.090594@CU.CP6>
Reply-To: clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Information Systems
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In article <890921.12375165.090594@CU.CP6> NEWSTV1@CARLETON.CA writes:
>
> I have just read the blurb on PCDitto II, the internal
>board for STs that gives you a PC.  It says that the board
>only works on "unmodified" STs.  If I read that correctly, it
>means that if I have just upgraded my 1040 to four megs with
>a Datafree or Aerco board, I can now pay $300 for the
>privilege of ripping outmy four meg ST so I can own a 640K
>PC.  Is this correct?  I'd like Avant Garde's comment on this.

My understanding was that if you have put in an upgrade that somehow
effects the 68000 itself, such as an accelerator or the JRI 4096 color
expander, you can't install the PC DITTO II.  All of these upgrades
sit atop, or require the socketing of, the 68000 itself.  So if you have
already modified your 68000 by putting something atop or underneath it,
you can't put in a PC DITTO II.

Your memory upgrade should not effect the PC DITTO.  However, you may
run into a power problem.  4 megs certainly pulls alot of power, and
the PC DITTO II may overtax your power supply.  Personally, I would not
put in both unless I knew my power supply was strong enough.



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