Re: Spending extra $$ on a ZipGS

[glynnet@zero.cypher.com (Glynne Tolar)]

In article <behrenss.737373202@hphalle9> behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:
>
>I guess it all depends very much on how good you are with a soldering iron.
>I know, there are those adaptors for the sockets, but they only work with
>certain SRAMs (do to the weaker signal or more noiseor something), and
>anyway, it's Just Not Done :) I _think_ the 9Mhz already have the small
>sockets, could someone confirm that?
>

I've seen 3 9MHz models, none had the small (300mil.) sockets.

>Hmmm ... I heard once that there were 14MHz models available directly from
>ZIP where they bypassed the slow portions of the ASIC with some 74F*
>circuitry. True? False?
>

I don't know where they would put these chips.  Now I've been told by Zip
that anything >12.5MHz will not work on ROM 1 GSes.  Too noisey.  They are
fixing this problem with a new multi layer board.  ROM 3s don't have this
problem.

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Glynne Tolar                                      glynnet@zero.cypher.com
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