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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Ram expansion on STes
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Date: 10 Mar 90 17:28:31 GMT
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In article <9003100804.AA03794@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> DUJARDIN@FRESE51.BITNET writes:
>In France ( and, I suppose, in Europe too ), there is no trouble about
>expanding
>memory on STes. Every Atari retailer offers STes up to 4 MB, and I've seen
>someone buying a 8 MB machine. Of course, Atari does not make himself the
>upgrade, and these are in fact 1040 STes. When you ask for more memory, the
>retailers simply open the 1040 and see if it needs SIMMs or SIPs. BTW, Atari
>doesn't sell 520 STEs at this moment, because it would be cheaper to buy a
>1040-expanded 520 than a true 1040 ( as an expanded Mega ST1 is cheaper than a
>Mega ST2 or ST4 ). Indeed, memory expansion goes cheaper and cheaper : an 1 MB
>SIMM now costs here 890 FF ( about $ 150 ), and a 4160 STE is 6990 FF ( $ 1100
>).

Well, you can get 1mb of 80ns SIMM from the Chip Merchant for about
US$70.

Chris



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