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From: landry@enginr.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Free RAM from Atari
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Date: 9 Oct 89 16:04:47 GMT
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In article <10085@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, src@cs.odu.edu (Scott R. Chilcote) writes...
" 
"  I opened my Mega 2 last week to install TOS 1.4, and discovered a TRULY 
"AMAZING thing.  The machine had a complete set of RAM chips, a total of 
"FOUR MEGABYTES worth, installed!!
" 
"	<etc>
" 
"  So, for the cost of soldering one pin of one IC to the motherboard,  I 
"have a FOUR MEGABYTE computer!!
"  

	My guess is that this was a Mega 4 that didn't pass the checkout.
	In the same way that chip makers sell slow chips at slower specs,
	Atari is probably selling Mega 4 fallouts as Mega 2's.  It's
	probably cheaper for them to give away the chips than to repair
	the boards (on the average).  So you got lucky!

	chris