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From: bertram@eastman.UUCP (Dudley Bertram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Ram expansion for 520STM
Message-ID: <1754@eastman.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 91 00:18:35 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.193336.6754@uvm.edu> <1991Feb22.123840.28812@newcastle.ac.uk> <1991Feb26.203020.13466@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Mar1.052442.6564@lth.se>
Reply-To: bertram@eastman.UUCP (Dudley Bertram)
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
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In article <1991Mar1.052442.6564@lth.se> qralph@dna.lth.se (Ralph Haglund) writes:
>Hi -
>I saw the note about upgrading a 520 to 2.5Mb when it already has an extra
>.5Mb added.
>Well... I am a friend of the guy who has the Atari shop in town, and I do
>the tricky business there. I have spent a few hours on 3-4 machines of that
>kind, to manually solder in 2 1Mx8 SIMMs in 520s with junk on top of the old
>chips. Put the CAS of those pigs to +5V, and then testing. No customer has
>come back with complaints. Just glue the SIMMs with silicon glue somewhere
>in the box.
>Ralph

Could you post or mail me more information about how you did this. I have an ST	that was upgraded by the piggy-back method and I would like to add more memory
if that is possible. Please go to as much detail as you can because I am not a
hardware oriented type of person. Thanks.

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