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From: JAP131@psuvm.psu.edu (John A. Pelna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy TL/2, memory upgrade?
Message-ID: <90071.005749JAP131@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 90 05:57:49 GMT
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  mh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Matthew M Holtz)  writes:

>Does anybody have any recommendations on if I should upgrade my TL/2 to 728k
>or leave it at 640k? It seems that the video memory is taking up some of the
>space, so to ease things a bit I thought of doing this, but can't decided.
>Also, I have a 20M IDE drive in it, can I put a hard card into it?
>Thanks,
>Matt

As for the video upgrade, I really can't say much about.  As for as the
20M drive goes, the main difference between the TL and the TL/2 is that
the TL/2 does require a hard disk controller (as you probably already know).
You might think that you can then add another hard disk in one of the expansion
slots.  This would be a big mistake.  The TL/2's power supply isn't strong
enough to handle both drives safely.  If you ask a Radio Shack employee
the same question, they would tell you the same thing.  Although I have
heard of some one running two 40M cards for over three years without a problem.
But I would recommend against it.

No problem,
John