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From: aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Unexpandable megas
Message-ID: <1431@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Dec 89 16:50:06 GMT
References: <8912120805.AA00886@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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In article <8912120805.AA00886@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> STJLHI33@WATSON.BITNET writes:
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>Now I find out that Atari crippled the Mega2s in an effort to rip off it's
>customers. 

It was probably an effort to save a few pennies.

I thought it was just *some* Mega 2's that were crippled. Any-road-up,
Frontier Software in the UK offer a 1/2meg or 2meg solderless RAM
upgrade which will upgrade any 512k ST to 1meg and, by switching chips
at a later date, upgrade a 512k machine to 2.5meg. More to the point, it
also claims to upgrade a Mega 2 to a Mega 4.

If your MMU and shifter aren't socketed I believe they will fit it for
you...

I'll send more info if anyone's interested.

Cheers,
Mark.