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From: amir@booboo.UUCP (Amir Majidimehr)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: expansion memory for EGA
Message-ID: <124@houligan.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 11:45:34 EST
Article-I.D.: houligan.124
Posted: Wed Oct 22 11:45:34 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Oct-86 02:32:58 EST
Organization: Gould Electronics, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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A friend of mine has an IBM EGA card that he bought a year ago.  The
board came with 64K bytes of image memory and he likes to expand it.
The local IBM product center (now NINEX) wants $200 for evey 64k!  In
other words, to bring his board up to 256K, it will cost him $600.
Now, that's three times as much as the clone EGA cards.

Does anyone make a low-cost expansion board for the IBM EGA card?  If
not, how difficult is it to replace the low-density RAMs on the card
with the more dense ones used on the clones?

Thanks for any info.


Amir H. Majidimehr
Gould Inc, Computer Systems Division
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