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From: roland@cochise.pcs.com (Roland Rambau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Moniterm & STe, STe & SIMMs, ATW news
Message-ID: <1990Feb26.090413.15775@pcsbst.pcs.com>
Date: 26 Feb 90 09:04:13 GMT
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->From article <2042@atari.UUCP>, by apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt):
->> 
->> I don't know them.  The SIMMs are there mainly for the cost and space
->> savings on the PC board, not so you can add memory to your machine.  
->> 
->> In some machines the memory is not even socketed: it's SIPs, not SIMMs.
->> If the cost of SIPs is lower than SIMMs plus sockets at the time we
->> buy, we use SIPs.

Allan, you may not know this, but in Germany the STE is definitely
advertized as "_expandable via SIMMs to up to 4 MB_" ( I have this in print ).
  Atari will probably have to refund any STE which does not stand to this
promise ...


Roland Rambau

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