5 Jul
2001
5 Jul
'01
2:05 p.m.
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.
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. BTW, is WB still limited to
256 colors?
Jeff
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