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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Need RAM ugrade for *original* Tandy model 100
Summary: cheap RAM chips are available
Message-ID: <1990Jan15.140436.26199@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 15 Jan 90 14:04:36 GMT
References: <2822@cerberus.oakhill.UUCP>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <2822@cerberus.oakhill.UUCP> hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) writes:
>I have one of the original laptops, a Tandy model 100.  It only
>has *8K* of RAM.  I didn't want to pay the $250 for the expansion
>chip to up it 24K so I stuck now.  I have talked to many of the
>salepeople at Radio Shack and they claim that they dont have anything
>that will help.  Does anyone know the chip type that was used for RAM and
>where I might find one?  Without extra RAM the thing is absolutely useless.

I've upgraded several of these.  I haven't bought the chips for a long
time, but most major electrical supply houses (like the ones that
advertise in the back of Byte) carry them.  I think that when I last
bought some the price was about $25 for each 8K chip.

-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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