30 Oct
2007
30 Oct
'07
8:27 a.m.
On 30 Oct 2007 at 8:12, Adrian Graham wrote:
I was so upset with the keyboard on my 520ST that I purchased a third-
party set of springs that were installed right under the keycaps. It
was better, but the keyboard was still a real pile of (What's the
right word, Jay--"stuph"?). I also recall that there was a mod for
the 520ST wherein additional DRAM could be soldered piggyback-style
over the original chips to double memory capacity. The chip-selects
for the added RAM were tied together and run to somewhere on the main
board.
Had Atari managed to put better keyboards on their intial STs, it
probably would have sold better.
Cheers,
Chuck
I had a very
early ST which had a slightly different keyboard. If I remember
correctly, rather than using those rubber things, it had little springs
beneath the keycaps which pressed down directly on the keyboard membrane.
I'm going to have to dig out my floppy-less 520 now!