Need Docs for XT RAM Board...

Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 14:55:28 -0600 From: "Julian Wolfe" <fireflyst at earthlink.net> Subject: RE: Need Docs for XT RAM Board... To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <001501c70378$38e29240$3c0718ac at CLCILLINOIS.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" What's your XT got in it now? Most non-IBM boards you could populate to 640K anyway so there was no point in those cards. If it's got 41256 chips on it, pull them from the card and install them in the motherboard banks, and then set the switches properly on your XT motherboard and you should be OK. I have an IBM XT motherboard in my 5155, so I went ahead and did the 640K upgrade and put the chips in. It freed up a slot on my machine, so I installed an AST RAMpage/2 in it. It's now got 2625KB of usable RAM (Windows 3.0 loves it!) I've done a bunch of work collecting utilities that will correct certain issues with old hardware or enhance certain capabilities (like get rid of snow and speed up scrolling on CGA and EGA cards, and stabilize/speedup NEC v20 chips) Let me know if you need my help. Julian