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From: lord@leadsv.UUCP (Parker Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Commodore 2 Meg Board
Keywords: Follow Up
Message-ID: <10518@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 90 16:50:01 GMT
Organization: LOCKHEED, Sunnyvale, CA
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    This is just a follow up to those of you who showed interest in the bare
2 Meg boards I found at a store in Scotts Valley CA called 'The Computer Room'.
After one weekend of solder sucking and solder sockets and a few days of 
debugging a bad chip, I got the card to work in my 2000.  I also had to add 
some 1K pullups to the DRAM side of the 2 LS245's on the card.  It also works 
fine with my new GVP SCSI + 8 controller (with 0 Meg).  
    I had found, like a lot of people who made the 1000 to 2000 upgrade, that
there was no way for me to use the memory I had in my StarboadII.  They
weren't making the adapters any more and no one seemed to make a card to hold
256K x 1 DRAMs.  I found out that these guys in Scotts Valley had some bare
2Meg cards that were designed for these chips and promptly drove up and got
one.  I was lucky enough to finally get it working since there was no gauruntee
it would ever work.
    Now I just need to find someone who wants to buy any empty StarboardII!


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