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From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: expandability of a500 question.
Message-ID: <3351@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 21 Jan 88 18:43:20 GMT
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Reply-To: eric@hector (Eric Lavitsky)
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In article <142@atrium.UUCP> chanst@atrium.UUCP writes:
>In article <510UD138985@NDSUVM1>, UD138985@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes:
>>   1.  How much memory can be added to the A500 and what extra items does it
>>       take to add that much?  I know about the internal board that brings the
>>       total amount up to 1 megabyte, but I would like to have a system with
>>       4 to 6 megabytes eventually.
>>      
>How much memory could be added to an A500?? First you can start by adding
>the extra 512K + clock in the underside, thats brings it to 1 Meg total,
>then you have eight megabytes more of external memory to go, but for now,
>the only item available for expansion is the byte box from Byte by Byte,
>thats a 2Meg board.

Well, not the only one - but one of the few that don't play games with
your money and your machine. Micron is selling Zorro II 2 Meg boards along
with a one or two slot adapter and power supply for the A500.

>As for hard disk, I think Supra makes a 20 meg and 40 Meg hard drive for
>the A500, the interface attaches to the expansion bus on the left side, it
>has a pass-thru bus, so you can add more memory boards.

But there is no guarantee that anything on the other side of the pass through
will work. Make every effort possible to test out your final configuration
before purchasing.

>Steve Chan
>UUCP: gatech!petro!atrium!chanst

Eric Lavitsky

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