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Re: Apple IIGS 256KB-only RAM card from Apple

Subject: Re: Apple IIGS 256KB-only RAM card from Apple
From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:16:45 +0200
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A2Pro wrote:

>     Does this mean that the chips you removed are 1MBx1 chips?  If
> that is the case, then that means that this card is actually a 1 MB
> expansion card.  That would make more sense as I can't understand why
> Apple would have wanted to produce a RAM expansion card for the IIgs
> that had only 256 KB of RAM.

Well.. why would they have wanted to produce *a IIgs* that had only 256
KB of RAM?

The Amiga 500 and the Atari 520ST had 512K, so this card would've
brought you up to par with them. Seems like a reasonable thing in
1986/87, though obviously not in 1989.

-- 
Linards Ticmanis

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