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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Summary of A3000 answers
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Date: 6 Jun 90 21:37:09 GMT
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Just a couple of corrections...

In <5712@hub.ucsb.edu>, dz@papaya.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle) writes:
>Earlier, I posted a whole lot of questions.  I was asked to summarize
>some of the answers, so here they are:
>
>General:  A3000 has 4 Zorro 3 slots.  2 are inline with AT slots, 1 with
>video slot, 1 with CPU slot.  Putting a card in a slot may cover the
>inline slot, rendering it useless.

The CPU slot is not anywhere near the Zorro III slots. It is a separate, 200
pin slot under the drive/power tray.

>RAM:  Can take up to 4 ZIPS, each holding 1 or 4 megs of 32-bit RAM.

A ZIP is a single chip, and holds either 1meg * 4 or 256K * 4. There are
sockets for 32 ZIPs, allowing either 4 or 16 megs of FAST memory on the
motherboard.

-larry

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