Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!fox!portal!atari!kbad From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Unexpandable megas Message-ID: <1891@atari.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 89 04:15:53 GMT References: <8912120805.AA00886@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 22 STJLHI33@WATSON.BITNET writes: | Now I find out that Atari crippled the Mega2s in an effort to rip off it's | customers. Atari did _NOT_ cripple the Mega 2's in an effort to rip off its customers. To clarify what I said in a previous post: due to manufacturing constraints, a VERY FEW Mega 2's have been produced which can not be upgraded. I was cautioning people who want to upgrade their Mega 2 by getting extra RAM installed at a service center that it is _possible_ that it may not be as simple as just installing the extra RAM. Context, people - please! The new machines which we are producing allow easy memory expansion: STE's by adding SIMMs on the motherboard, and TT by memory expansion cards (the "fast" TT RAM cards use SIMMs as well). -- ||| Ken Badertscher (ames!atari!kbad) ||| Atari R&D System Software Engine / | \ #include