Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mrcnext!chuck From: chuck@mrcnext.uiuc.edu (charles bridgeland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: 256k simms in a 1040st? Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 91 01:04:59 GMT References: <75105@bu.edu.bu.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 20 selick@bucsf.bu.edu (Steven Selick) writes: >I have 4 256k 120 ns simms that came out of a 1040ste. can my brother >use these (and possibly 2 more from a mac) to upgrade a 1040st to 2.5 >meg? >-steve > ------------------------------------------- i think it would be a lot of trouble---lots of wires to mess with. a guy in our users group upped his 1040 to 2.5 meg with 2 1meg mac simms, which turned out to be a (the way he did it) a very neat and compact job. he clipped out one bank of soldered in chips, cleaned outthe holes and wired the simms direct. but he only had 2 simms to worry about---you have 4 or 6. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- chuck bridgeland---anarchoRepublican --don't forget, we surround _them_, not the other way around" chuck@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu hire me so I can quit this pit. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------