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From: ya16@mrcu (Ian Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Unexpandable megas
Summary: Frontier Software upgrade works fine.
Message-ID: <323@mrcu>
Date: 4 Jan 90 16:01:33 GMT
References: <8912120805.AA00886@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1431@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK
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In article <1431@castle.ed.ac.uk>, aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson) writes:
> In article <8912120805.AA00886@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> STJLHI33@WATSON.BITNET writes:
> 
> 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.

I have a Mega 2 which has been upgraded to 4 Mb using Frontier's hardware and
it works fine.  And whats more the installation was relatively painless.