Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Request info: 1040 RAM upgrades
Message-ID: <247@electro.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 05:07:40 GMT
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Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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what is the slowest memory that the atari st can use without adding more
wait states. i've got 768K of rather slow memory (> 200ns access time i think)
from an old machine that doesn't really work too well, and could be put to
good use as expansion ram for the st. or do st memory expansions need to be
in increments of 2M??

also, is there a good reason atari decided to make the cartridge port a READ
ONLY port. it makes designing extra interfaces a REAL pain in the but. like, i
haven't seen too many ROM cartridges (except the vt100 cartridge, and even that
is not too hot), and virtually all cartridges out there require some way of
writing to the cartridge port (ie: clocks, ram-disk cartridge, digitizers, etc)
(maybe if atari sold kits that would give a 1040 an expansion port just like
a mega st!!!!)      :-)
(that would be as nice as the "promise-lan", eh atari?)  :-)  :-)  :-)

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Ignac A. Kolenko                watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac
"Sex farm woman, don't you see my silo risin' high? Working on a sex farm, 
hosing down your barn door, bothering your livestock, they know what I need!"
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