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#A3000 RAM upgrade easy?

    29-Nov-90 20:58:05
Sb: #A3000 RAM upgrade easy?
Fm: Charles Blaquiere 76046,1756
To: All
What's involved in installing an extra 4M of RAM in an A3000? I know what chips to buy (1M x 4, 80 ns, static-column, ZIP-format RAM) and I know that when I install them I'll have to transfer the existing 1M of Fast RAM over to the Chip side. However, do I void my warranty by ding this myself? Is there anything I have to do to make the machine recognize the memory properly? Is there any soldering/desoldering involved, do I have to move jumpers, in a nutshell: can I do it myself? The reason I'm asking is that the best price I can get is $790 CDN. — and that's when I buy an A3000 at the same time. Compare that with $475 US and doing it myself starts to look mighty attractive… Blaq!