A500 Expansion Options
30-Sep-90 23:00:24
Sb: #1953-A500 Expansion Options
Fm: Christopher Laprise 70431,2172
To: Stephen Marano 72415,1507
Stephen,
External RAM expansion beyond 1MB is, in my experience, the best method
by far. I have also tried internal boards that plug into the CPU socket and
had miserable results.. They never lasted more than a day before acting up,
causing system failures, etc. Expansion in the A501 slot is OK, but it
requires you to open your case, pull chips, etc. and the RAM will slow to a
crawl under heavy video/sound use. External RAM can be had in very small
packages such as MAST's Mini-Megs and will no doubt be faster and more
reliable.