> I misremembered the 350 (I don't have
one): it can have memory in the
I/O
> card cage, but it also has memory daughter
cards, two of them, with 40
pin
connectors.
Many years ago I upgraded those daughter cards and changed them from
using
64kbit chips to 256 kbit chips. I don't
remember the exact type which I
used. It was very successful. The system went from 512kbyte total to 1280
kbyte total. There were no stability issues what I remember so the
refresh
seemed to have worked fine.
You're talking about the Pro-380 daughtercard, right? It has a jumper on
the card to indicate to the software whether the card has 64k or 256k
chips. I don't see anything like that in the Pro-350 description.
No. Actually the 350. I still have the machine, though it hasn't been ran
for ages. I did this "upgrade" more than 25 years ago so the (my...) memory
is a bit fuzzy. But I think I remember that it was just a simple change of
chips. No extra wiring needed to handle the extra address bit, it was all
there.
I just looked up the tech manual page 5-46: "The system can address up to
512kbytes per daughter board slot" so my memory wasn't that bad after all.