Path: utzoo!dciem!king
From: king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000, and Micron Technologies single slot chassis
Message-ID: <2590@dciem.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 15:30:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: dciem.2590
Posted: Tue Jan 12 10:30:56 1988
References: <8712250110.AA26008@jade.berkeley.edu> <3315@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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Summary: 

In article <3315@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> eric@hector (Eric Lavitsky) writes:
>Don't understand why you did this - the Micron memory board is way superior
	- This is obviously a matter of opinion :-)
>to the Commodore design (no offense guys :-), because of the following:
>	1) 4 layer PC board (CBM is two layer) - means less noise
	- Also means MUCH higher cost.
>	2) Socketed RAM array (CBM is soldered) - means bad chips
>		are easily replaced.
	- RAM chips rarely go bad, unless they are very poor quality,
	at least, this has been my experience, and the experience of most
	IBM-PC users who have never had RAM parity errors, despite the
	built-in ability to identify them.
	- Are they machine contact sockets? If not, I'd rather have the
	chips soldered in. Bad chips can be easily removed by cutting
	the leads off them and then desoldering each lead individually.
	Poor quality sockets are more trouble than they are worth.

I am not implying that the Micron board is not a good product, just that
the things you point out as advantages are not always so.       ...sjk
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