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A500 Expansion Options

    28-Sep-90 09:18:04
Sb: A500 Expansion Options
Fm: Stephen Marano 72415,1507
To: ALL
I'm looking to expand the memory in my Amiga 500 beyond the internal 1MB, but would prefer not to use the side-car expansion box approach. Has anyone had long-term experience with any of the third-party internal expansion boards that can bring total RAM beyond the 1MB standard? When these boards first came out, a lot of people expressed concern about potential problems with excessive drain on the power supply as well as heat buildup. Now that the Amiga has been around for a while, I was wondering if these concerns have proved well-founded. As an alternative, are there any safe external memory expansion units that sit either above or below the A500 (lateral shelf space is the problem I have with the sidecar approach)?