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From: mikes@lakesys.lakesys.com (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Adding memory
Message-ID: <1254@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Date: 30 Oct 89 17:19:08 GMT
References: <3481@scolex.sco.COM: <1665@agora.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <1665@agora.UUCP> billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) writes:
>From article <3481@scolex.sco.COM:, by brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet):
>: 
>: Now for some amiga stuff:
>: I have a Supra Hard Disk/controller on my ami 1000, and a StarBoard II
>: which currently has 1 Meg installed.  Anyone else been able to add
>: more memory to their system beyond the 2 Meg capacity of the Starboard
>: when they have the configuration?
>
>	When I had a similar setup I was able to add a C-Ltd aMEGA one
>meg card and a Spirit Technologies 1.5 meg internal card to my system.
>That gave me 4.75 meg (With the Kickstart Eliminator giving me the extra
>.25 meg.)

Speaking of which; does anyone out there who owns a Supra 4X4 for the A1000
have the RAM board which fits inside of the 4X4, which Supra _used to_ sell?
I currently have 1.5 meg of total memory on my 1000, which is getting to be
not quite enough for me, and it's frustrating to know that there is a
connector on the inside of my Supra interface that will accommodate extra
memory, but that Supra decided to quit offering, because memory chip prices
skyrocketed.  Has anyone heard whether Supra would consider re-offering this
board, now that prices have come down?  Personally, I would doubt it, since
they seem to have abandoned the A1000 owners in terms of several other
possibilities (specifically, AutoBoot ROMS, which I was told by Supra was a
possibility with the 4X4 for the 1000, but they hadn't decided yet if it was
worth doing on the 1000...  Grrrr.)

Another possibility; barring any offerings from Supra to address these
issues, has anyone either (a) tried to create their own RAM board which would
fit in the A1000 4X4, and plug into the expansion connector?  Is the
technical information available which would permit design of such a beast?
If no one has tried this yet, would there be any interest/market/whatever to
create something like this?  There have got to be a significant number of
A1000 owners with Supra 4X4's out there, who would presumably jump at the
chance to have Autoboot ROMS and/or extra expansion memory on their systems,
but who don't want to have to trade in their disk interfaces or else have to
make their system box another 3 inches wider.

If you think you might be interested in helping make this happen, please
email me, or post your thoughts here about this.
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