Cheetah Cub board - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Jun 2004

the little guys are only 256K by 1, so it takes 9 of them to make a 256K byte bank. PC
memory has always been spoken off by the byte.

As for the Amiga, it will take 8 (or 9) to make each 256K byte upgrade. Of course, getting
nit picky, 256K bytes could be thought of as a 2meg bit upgrade - it sounds impressive and
it what a saleman would have said... LOL

I can understand your need to stick your face in mud rather than buy a PC... :)

best regards, Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Doc Shipley &lt;doc(a)mdrconsult.com&gt;
Sent: Jun 9, 2004 3:09 PM
To: Steve Thatcher &lt;melamy(a)earthlink.net&gt;et>, General(a)mdrconsult.com, 
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Subject: Re: Cheetah Cub board

Steve Thatcher wrote:

...
  hmmm, I thought there were four rows of 18 chips. That
sounds like 8 banks of 256K which seems
 like 2meg to me... unless I got something wrong 
   No, I guess I got it wrong.  I thought you meant 256K per chip, or 
4MB per bank (16 * 256K plus 2 * 256K for parity).

   So are these 256K per bank, or 256K per chip?  IOW, if they turn out 
to be compatible and I install 16 of them on the Amiga A2091, will that 
be a 2MB or 0.25MB upgrade?

   I'm a complete retard at memory components.  It doesn't make sense to 
me at all, even after a fair amount of reading and some explanation from 
  some Smart People.

...
  as for board worth, the 256K chips are worth a bit. I
found a site that had them for sale at $0.75 each. 
   Well, that wouldn't suck.  Of course that means they're really worth 
about $0.20/each.  :)

...
  If you need a PC to run it in, buy one on eBay... LOL
(couldn't help that one) 
   Heh.  I'd rather stick my face in the mud.... [family joke]

	Doc