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From: djw@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: More memory 520STE
Message-ID: <27740006@hpldsla.sid.hp.com>
Date: 28 Jan 91 19:45:45 GMT
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Organization: HP Scientific Instruments Division - Palo Alto, CA
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> Alexis MERMET-GRANDFILLES asks:
> >Some people say we can use 2 x 1Meg SIMMS and 2 x 256K SIMMS to make
> >a 2.5 Meg STE system.
> >
> >Is it actually reliable and supported by ATARI ?
>  
> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
> Atari does **NOT** support ANY memory expansion for ANY Atari product before
> the TT...  
>  
> You buy it, and you take your chances on upgrading it...

I  have  heard  this  stated  on  the  NET  many  times  before,
however....  

I just traded up to 1040STE, and while I was at the shop grabbed
a copy of the Atari STE sales  brochure.  In that  document,  it
clearly  states that the 1040STE is  "internally  expandable  to
4Mb".  That  would  indicate  to me that  expansion  to  4Meg is
supported.  Atari  might  demand that the  expansion  be done by
Atari,  but  clearly  the  implication  is that a  1040STE  4Meg
configuration is supported.  At least that's a the way I read it
:-)

> However, the STe can be easily upgraded with SIMMs, *IF* your STe is
> equipped with SIMM sockets...

Sure was,  picked up 4Meg the way home from the Atari shop.  One
test of the  machine at 1Meg (to see that it  worked!),  then an
easy upgrade to 4Meg.  At as a side  comment, the STE seems much
better quality than my old 1040ST.

djw@hpldsla.hp.com