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From: CCGAVIN@uqvax.decnet.uq.oz (Gavin Stone-Tolcher...Prentice Computer Centre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Super Agnus (2 Meg) <---- Rumor
Message-ID: <7662@uqvax.decnet.uq.oz>
Date: 14 Mar 90 00:33:22 GMT
References: <1155@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <11558@etana.tut.fi> <413@poppy.warwick.ac.uk>
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In article <413@poppy.warwick.ac.uk>, phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington) writes:
> In article <11558@etana.tut.fi> pl@etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti) writes:
>>
>>	Newest machines I've seen have 4 256k*4 drams onboard and places
>>	for other 4. So it should be very simple to extend from 512k to
>>	1 Meg by putting them in.
> 
>    Yes, BUT last time I rang CBM CATS UK had not been told how by CBM US:-)
> 
>    In a reply in a computer mag. article someone from commodore even denied
> that these sockets were possible to connect up, and were future expansion.
> I believe him:-)

	This is untrue. All A500s currently manufactured (ie. Main board
	revision 6A onwards) use the new 1M Agnus chip and are fully capable of
	using the extra ram slots on the board. Modification to two jumpers are
	required, 7a allows the extra 512k to autoconfig while jumper 2 forces 
	it to config as chip ram instead of fast ram (this will give you 1M
	chip ram). My 500 was configured this way after warranty expiration.

    	If anyone from CBM US. is reading you might want to take note that
	similar confusion existed here in Australia. Possibly more can be done 
	to inform non US CBM staff about changes to machines and what these
	changes may entail.


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