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From: s110018@pollux.ucdavis.edu (0000;0000001007;4000;250;216;s110)
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Subject: Re: Spirit 1.5 meg board?
Summary: a ton O fun
Keywords: Memory expansion, A1000, Spirit Tech.
Message-ID: <4609@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 89 00:31:43 GMT
References: <3767@tank.uchicago.edu>
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Reply-To: s110018@pollux.ucdavis.edu (Bruce Rogers)
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In article <3767@tank.uchicago.edu> arxt@tank.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer) writes:
>I am on the verge of ordering a Spirit Tech. 1.5meg board for an
>A1000.  I do not have a harddrive on my A1000, so I want the
>My A1000 right now is a plain vanilla one, with nothing added except the
>usual 256k board to provide 512k and one external(Commodore) floppy.
>
>Pat Palmer (email: ppalmer@oddjob.uchicago.edu)

	Well, I've had two spirit boards (the first of which killed off
my A500 - so now I have an A1000) Being not overly intelligent, I thought
the spirit board seemed like a good idea. It does work, but I'm not too
sure about their 'truth in advertising'. On the side of the box, it
says ."No cuts or soldering required." This is unfortunately, bullshit,
but if you can get the pal chips and the processor soldered, the thing
ought to work.... (I had to bend a screwdriver in a vise to make tool
to pop out the 68000.) Spirit does advertise that they have a,
"Unique installation and Utility Disk" which means essentially that
they were too cheap to print the instructions...

Just the point of view of a nn-tech.
Good luck if you do get it!

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