Re: PCT

[gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu (DESROCHERS GARY FREDERIC)]

Steve Craft (scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu) wrote:
: Keyboard is dying please ear with me.

: I got a PCT for my GS a little while ago.  I shipped my Pegasus out so I
: cannot turn the GS on until it comes back.  Anyway, it came from LRO and
: I was checking out the card and I can see no RAM chips on it.  It''s
: supposed to be a new 768k model, although the book looks like someone
: else leafed trough it efore.

    The card should be full (of RAM chips that is).

: Where are the RAM chips and why does it look like there aren't enough
: chips on the board in the first place?

    They are the special type of RAM chips.  The new improved invisible
ones.  They are hard to come by so make sure no one takes them.:-)

    If the sockets are empty and it is suppose to be a 768k model then I
would send it back.  For that matter, if you have sockets then I would send
it back.  The new 768k model does not have sockets.  The chips are suppose
to be directly connected.  When mine broke down a couple of months ago I
got back a PCT that had no sockets.  I reserve the right to be wrong though.
Of course, you do not need a hard drive to use the PCT.  Heck I have run
it from a 5.25. (Yes it is possable.)

Gary
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Gary F. Desrochers
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