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From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Clarified (was A500, ROM, 1.3, 2.0)
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.011511.86980@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 28 Jun 91 15:15:11 GMT
References: <1991Jun27.222315.86974@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
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In article <1991Jun27.222315.86974@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>, bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>         I'm under the *impression* that the 1.2/1.3 rom in the A500 is 256
> Kbytes, that 2.0 will need a 512 Kbyte rom, that a standard 512 Kbyte rom
> is not pin compatible with a 256 Kbyte rom, and that if a 2.0 rom is released
> of the A500 it may need an adaptor unit to plug into the rom socket on the
> motherboard. What am I getting at ?

        I've been informed by several people that the ROM in the A500
*is* a 512 Kbyte chip, so my origional question about adaptor sockets
and clearance for the 68000 socket has been answerd. According to what
I have been told, there is no need for a ROM adaptor, so there will be
no clearance problems for the 68000 socket.


>         I'm not a hardware expert. All of the above is personal speculation
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

          I seem to have well and truely established this as fact ;-)


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