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From: GTI@PSUVM.BITNET (Leon Geesey Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Upgrading an old IBM PC/XT to 640k
Message-ID: <34646GTI@PSUVM>
Date: 25 Feb 88 21:09:02 GMT
Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center
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I bet this is probably old hat, but since I'm not that familiar with
real IBM PC's I was wondering what it would require to upgrade an
old IBM PC/XT from it's standard 256k to 640k. This PC was bought
by a department here at Penn State/York Campus to run just 1 package
and it seems as if the new version of this package requires more that
256k depending on what you are doing. It gives us an error message and
then keeps on going, but giving strange results. The reason I think
that it needs more ram, is because we also have this program installed
on a IBM PC/XT with 640k and all seems to run ok. I've been told that
I can upgrade to 640k without installing an expansion board, and other
people have told me I need an expansion board. So which is it???
Any help would be appreciated.

                                      Leon