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From: aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SIMMs for the STE
Keywords: SIMM, STE,
Message-ID: <2668@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Mar 90 17:56:24 GMT
References: <2703@erix.ericsson.se> <2069@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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In article <2069@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>The SIMMs are there mainly for the cost and space savings on the PC
>board, not so you can add memory to your machine.  Sometimes we use
>SIPs, not SIMMs, and they're soldered right into the board! Don't rush
>out and buy a 520STe expecting to be able to upgrade it.

Who should we contact in order to change this policy? 

I believe this would be in the interest of saving Atari from becoming a
worldwide laughing stock....

Obviously Atari never bothered to tell UK magazines that the SIMMS
weren't a feature of the machine so when they opened the machine SIMMS
were what they found - can you blame them for assuming this to be a
'feature' of the machine (rather like the square 68000 being a 'feature')?

Amiga owners (sorry!) just take off a panel on their machines and shove in
a 60 quid upgrade. How can the STE be a 'machine for the 90s' if we
still have to fart around with soldering irons or making sure that our
MMU and Shifter are socketed so that we can fit a board???

Mark.