26 May
1998
26 May
'98
2:08 a.m.
>>I hope that "16K" means "16/64K
model" as opposed to "actually equipped
>>with
>>16K of memory."
>
>Your hopes are dashed. The only pricey IBM PCs are the ones that had 16K
>installed at the factory and weren't upgraded.
So they only had 16K on board, and no empty sockets for expansion to
64K? Or do you mean that they just came with 16K but you could add the
rest of the chips yourself?
Interestingly enough I seem to remember that there was an unofficial
mod that you could make easily to the 256K system boards to take them
out to 512K... I don't know if that applied to all the XT 256K boards or
not...
cheers
Jules
26 May
26 May
6:38 a.m.
Julian Richardson wrote:
So they only had 16K on board, and no empty sockets
for expansion to
64K? Or do you mean that they just came with 16K but you could add the
rest of the chips yourself?
They came with 16K of soldered in RAM with 3 more banks to add another
whole 48K of RAM! For a while, I was wondering why there were 3rd party
RAM cards with room for 500K+. After seeing the original 16K board, the
answer became obvious :).
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