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From: sck@arnor.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000UX at UniForum?
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.164544.28007@arnor.uucp>
Date: 4 Feb 91 16:45:44 GMT
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In article <1991Feb3.002213.7431@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, msiskin@css.itd.umich.edu (Marc Siskin) writes:
|> In article <1991Feb1.235941.6139@arnor.uucp> sck@shed.watson.ibm.com (SC Kennedy) writes:
|> >using four 256 KB ZIPPS instead of one 1 MB ZIPP. This means you have to 
|> >sell/throw out the memory when you upgrade your memory :*( The other version
|> >-- 
|> 
|>   On the Educational A3000 I last worked on (and several others that I have
|> talked to the owners of) the 5 Megs of memory were configured as 1 Meg Chip
|> and 4 Megs of 1meg Zips.  None of the 5 meg systems I have seen or heard
|> about had 256K zips in it. 

Boing!

  That's what I get for appending at midnight. What I meant was that the 5 meg
3000s are being shipped with all banks full using the 1 meg ZIPPS instead
of one bank of 4meg ZIPPS. Not 256k Zipps (my mistake)

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