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From: gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SIMMs for the STE
Keywords: SIMM, STE,
Message-ID: <1990Mar10.222832.7255@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 90 22:28:32 GMT
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In article <1990Mar10.162957.26323@lth.se> qralph@dna.lth.se (Ralph Haglund) writes:

> Here it goes again.....  Alan Pratt repeats his "don't expect to be
> able to upgrade your STE", but refuses to comment on what some German
> wrote recently, that there the STEs are advertised as "easily
> upgrradeable to 4Mb" or similar.

Look, Allan is a software guy. He is not in charge of European STE
marketing. He's just telling you what he's seen in California. If your
dealer in Germany tells you that your STE can be upgraded with SIMMS
and it can't, that's your dealer's statement. If you find out your
dealer is wrong, I'd try to get him to give you a STE with SIMMS.
Whether or not you get SIMMS or SIPS, it is not Allan's job to figure
out things other than bugs in TOS.

Allan's statement means that you shouldn't be surprised when
SIP-equipped STE's show up. It means that you know to make sure your
dealer promises, maybe in writing, that your STE can take SIMMs.
Allan's statement may save you money someday, and all you do is
complain about it.

Oh, once again, Allan, even though I never can remember the right way
to spell your name ;-), I just wanted to say Thanks! for the technical
information you occasionally post about TOS. It's too bad that people
attempt to demand official Atari statements from you when you're here
on your own time because you like listening to us argue ;-).

Greg Lindahl
gl8f@virginia.edu                                  Astrophysicists for Choice.