Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!merrimack.edu!nin15b0b From: nin15b0b@merrimack.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: Real Atari history Message-ID: <1991May4.090016.21788@merrimack.edu> Date: 4 May 91 09:00:16 GMT References: <1991May3.070356.21318@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <1991May3.094832.21781@merrimack.edu> <1991May4.015411.3642@odin.corp.sgi.com> Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA Lines: 32 In article <1991May4.015411.3642@odin.corp.sgi.com>, portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: > 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. > Michael, if thats the board you bought from me, then it is the same kind. -- David E. Sheafer internet: nin15b0b@merrimack.edu or uucp: samsung!hubdub!nin15b0b GEnie: D.SHEAFER Cleveland Freenet: ap345 Bitnet: Sheafer_davi@bentley