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From: garee@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Scott Garee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: TANDY WP-2 QUESTIONS
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.223747.15574@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 90 22:37:47 GMT
References: <1111600001@cdp> <1990Dec13.180918.11808@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <34746@netnews.upenn.edu>
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>In article <1990Dec13.180918.11808@evax.arl.utexas.edu> garee@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Scott Garee) writes:
>Forget 3rd party - buy the CMOS RAMs from a supply house.  It's
>a standard low power CMOS 32K RAM (nothing special about it at all-
>I checked v.s. other similary low power 32K static rams).  I got 
>mine for less than $8.
>
>No. The 32K fits the lower pins - there are 2 or 4 pins (I can't
>quite remember) at the top which are not used.  I'm not sure if they
>are WIRED on the board, though.  It appears not.  Like they put
>a 'standard arbitrary EPROM socket' on the board, even though
>they wired it for EPROM-pin-compatable RAMS of 32K or less only.

Boy is my face red!  I checked at the store and learned once again not
to trust my memory.
Sorry for the bad info people.  And to think I hadn't made a mistake in
20 minutes!


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