6 Jul
2001
6 Jul
'01
12:24 a.m.
Jeff Hellige skrev:
>The majority of my memory is comprised of 30-pin
SIMMs on a Fastlane Z3 SCSI
>card. It's a really nice SCSI card (I particularly like the fact that it's
>got a full CEN50 socket on the blanking plate), but even though it's a Z3
>card, the RAM only runs at 80% of the mobo speed.
For a while, I thought about getting one of the DKB
3128 ZIII
memory boards, but never got around to it. I did try to use the
Rapidfire for RAM once, but it slowed things down so much I didn't
leave it like that. The thing I always hated about expanding the
ZIPs in an A3000 wasn't getting the chips but inserting them into the
sockets. The way the 3000's ZIP banks were staggered made for a
difficult time aligning the pins.
We thought about getting such a board until some weeks ago when we were lended
a Phase 5 Cyberstorm MK II 060 accelerator with 72-pin sockets. Still, it's
quite apparent that this A3000 is kept together mostly by rust and hot glue.
On good days, it works from a cold boot, otherwise it requires a few resets
before everything's settled.
>And it can't be expanded either? Hm, sounds a
lot like the PII.
The base Spectrum came with just 1meg while the
higher end
one came with 2. I believe it was simple enough to add the 2nd meg
to the base model though. At the time, I had a 14" NEC monitor
attached to it and I liked keeping the virtual screen set for
auto-scrolling with the screen size set to 1280 x 960 with the actual
viewable at a single time as 640 x 480.
We thought about buying such a card, too, until we were lended a Picasso IV.
You can't go any farther on the Zorro bus (ATM).
BTW, is WB still limited to 256 colors?
God forbid! That could be a good reason to install P96/CGFX instead of EGS.
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