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From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Real Atari history
Message-ID: <1991May4.015411.3642@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 4 May 91 01:54:11 GMT
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In article <1991May3.094832.21781@merrimack.edu>,
nin15b0b@merrimack.edu writes:
|> In article <1991May3.070356.21318@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>,
|> mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark Newton John) writes:
|> > 
|> > Here are some facts about the 400.
|> > 
|> > 16k RAM. Not user expandible. Of course you found hacks making
|> > keyboards and expanding one to at least 1Mb.
|>  
|>   I beg to differ.  I owned an atari 400.  I expanded it to 48k
|> with a user
|> expandable 48k ram board from a third party developer (AXLON).  

And if my memory serves me correctly, that same exact board is
installed in my Atari 400 at home.

BTW, at one point Atari marketed their own 48K expansion kit for the
400.  I saw this at B&C Computervisions in Santa Clara, CA a few
months ago.

m.


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