Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!aplcen!jhunix!dat_08 From: dat_08@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Jared Brennan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Unexpandable megas Summary: pipe down Message-ID: <3730@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 18 Dec 89 21:16:11 GMT References: <8912120805.AA00886@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1891@atari.UUCP> <25128@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: dat_08@jhunix.UUCP (Jared Brennan) Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 26 In article <25128@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes: >KenB replies to a previous message: > >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. >Ken... can you expand on this, and explain to everyone here on the Net just >what those manufacturing constraints were... and why it is that only a >very few Mega ST2s can't be upgraded...? >BobR Look, you certainly weren't complaining when you found out that certain Mega ST2's actually already had 4 Mbytes of RAM, so why are you complaining when certain Mega ST2's are locked at 2 Mbytes? I personally don't recall internal memory expansion being an advertised option on any of the Mega ST computers. And there are real world problems which can crop up and leave Atari stuck with strange components which make it impossible to make those upgradable Mega ST2's. So stop hassling Ken B., who has no responsibility for any of this, and find something better to do. Thanks. -- Another shallow and badly thought out opinion from . . . Jared Brennan BITNET: JHEDDY@JHUVMS ARPA: dat_08%jhunix@hopkins.ARPA UUCP: allegra!hopkins!jhunix!dat_08