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From: thoger@solan19.solan.unit.no (Terje Th|gersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Please help with memory expansion for 80286 machine
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.165949.7411@idt.unit.no>
Date: 17 Sep 90 16:59:49 GMT
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In article <1990Sep17.002258.19941@morrow.stanford.edu>, LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
|> I want to buy an extra 2MB of RAM for my (80286 based) Epson Equity
|> II+ computer, for as little as possible ($200 or less, if possible).
|> I want to use the extra memory as a RAM disk, cache, and sometimes
|> for applications that can use expanded or extended memory directly.
|> 
|> I've seen possible candidates by Boca ($249), AST (Rampage, 229.95
|> and Six Pack 286, 139.95 with 512K) and Everex (EMS card advertised
|> for $99.00). If anyone has any recommendations (among these or other
|> cards) or suggestions, I'd be very grateful.

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There are two BocaRam exPanded mem. boards, the 'AT' and the 'AT Plus'. 
I tried the 'AT' in a 10 Unisys PW300 AT compatible. This computer
has a *bus* speed of 10 MHz when running at 10 Mhz, and according to
a Unisys tech. rep., the bus signals are not very "clean". Anyway, this
proved too much for the BocaRam card, the machine refused to boot at
10 Mhz.

When pressed, the techie at the BocaRam importer admitted that these 
pressed bus-speeds were a problem for the 'AT'. He also said that the
'AT Plus' was "better", but could be expected to have "similar problems".

An AST Premium with 2 MB exPanded mem. works like a charm in the same
machine.

|> 
|> PS If anyone who has moved up to a 386 machine has a memory
|> expansion card lying around that they have no use for, I might be
|> interested in purchasing it.

I have a BocaRam AT with no mem installed for sale *very* cheaply.. :-)

  -Terje