| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2391.1 | | STOUT::MCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Thu Mar 23 1989 09:02 | 10 |
| Southern New Hampshire Area
I suggest going to Omnitek in Salem NH and buying a Commodore A2058
8 Meg memory board with 2 MB installed for $649 complete. No tax
and no shipping. This was about the best price I could find. The
missing 6 MB are socketed. The board supports configurations of
2, 4, and 8 MB. It was trivial to install, but Omnitek will do
it for you if necessary.
- steve
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| 2391.2 | | CANIS::RIES | Frank W. Ries Jr. | Thu Mar 23 1989 13:30 | 13 |
| The reason I was looking at the 8-up board is that it supports all sorts
of memory chips and configurations. Also, I have some 256K chips, so I
don't need a board with memory on it. Makes the whole deal alot cheaper!
An 8-up board with 0K seems to go for around $150, and I think the pop-simms
are $50 per pair, so all in all, I could add memory fairly cheaply. Also,
since the board supports different chips (simms or chips, 256K, 1MG) in
increments as small as 512K, I can change parts as I get them and upgrade
the board.
Any comments?
Frank
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| 2391.3 | | STOUT::MCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Thu Mar 23 1989 14:31 | 7 |
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Ok, I see. I've had some experience with Microbotics under stress
and all in all I guess they're not a bad company. See notes 2218.8,
.10, and .12. Also I used to have a Starboard II with 2 MB on a
A1000 and had absolutely no problems whatsoever.
- steve
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| 2391.4 | new version of 8-UP! available | NAVCOM::ARNOLD | | Fri Mar 24 1989 09:54 | 8 |
| I believe MIcrobotics has stopped making the original 8-UP! board
that can take either 256K or 1M Pop-Simms. The new version is called
"8-UP! (DIP)" and will only accept conventional 1M chips that you
install in run-of-the-mill DIP sockets. Much more economical then
purchasing those empty POP-SIMM modules at $40/each. The new board
is the same price as the original one.
-Jeff
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| 2391.5 | | CANIS::RIES | Frank W. Ries Jr. | Fri Mar 24 1989 12:51 | 18 |
| > I believe MIcrobotics has stopped making the original 8-UP! board
> that can take either 256K or 1M Pop-Simms. The new version is called
> "8-UP! (DIP)" and will only accept conventional 1M chips that you
> install in run-of-the-mill DIP sockets. Much more economical then
> purchasing those empty POP-SIMM modules at $40/each. The new board
> is the same price as the original one.
>
> -Jeff
Hmmm, I had not heard of that. Where did you hear this? If indeed you have
standard memory chips, then its a good thing, but if you happen to have
SIMMs, then you lose. The reason I'm interested in the 8-up is that I have
2mb worth of 256KB SIMMS, so I should be able to plug them right in, no
need for pop-simms. However, in the future I could always upgrade to
1MB SIMMs, or 1meg DIPs, whichever I could get easiest, or cheapest. Its
this "flexability" that interests me about the 8-up!.
Frank
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| 2391.6 | | NAVCOM::ARNOLD | | Mon Mar 27 1989 13:31 | 7 |
| Microbotics new ad in either Amazing Computing or Amiga World
shows the new "8-UP! (DIP)" board. They might still make the old
version, but I doubt it. I think it's big drawback was having to buy
the Pop-Simm modules on top of buying the DRAMS. Don't know why they
went this route in the first place. Call them and ask.
-Jeff
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