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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RAM
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Date: 28 Dec 88 17:10:35 GMT
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In <10903@swan.ulowell.edu>, page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>>opinions regarding Spirit Technology's 1.5MB internal memory in an A1000?
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>I have one in mine, it works well.  I used to have two
>slap-on-the-side cards (memory and hard disk) but I had so many
>problems with machine crashes that I gave the memory board to my wife
>and installed an Insider.  Now that I have only one external device, I
                  ^^^^^^^
>don't have lots of mysterious crashes.  Since it also has a clock, I
>was able to get rid of my A-time too.

Please! Spirit Technology does NOT make the Insider. The Insider is from
Michigan Software, and is a completely different beast.

>>How much will it tax the power supply?
>
>Not enough to worry about it.  The A1000 power supply is thankfully
>overbuilt.

This is right, and the Insider will not tax the power supply of the A1000. I
can't speak for the Spirit Tech board, because I have no direct experience with
it, nor do I know anyone who has one in an A1000.  The Spirit Technology board
for the A500 is another story altogether, and many problems have arisen from
the A500 power supply (reported, not from experience). Michigan Software does
not (and will not) produce an Insider for the the A500 for a number of very
good technical reasons.

So, the question about taxing the power supply probably stems from the problems
with the A500.

>..Bob

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