Re: IIGS memory expansion card questions

[Dan Foster <usenet@evilphb.org>]

In article <dQvIc.90975$sj4.44321@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, Peter Watson <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com> wrote:
> The obvious question (to me) is where did you get the boards - or more to
> the point, why was someone selling them?

Got both off eBay; one was from a just-retired teacher that no longer
has a need to use it to prepare lessons, and the other looked like it
was from an auction firm auctioning off a school district's retired
hardware for some cents on the dollar and freeing up storage space.

(A fairly common phenomenon -- that's the usual case if someone has tens
to hundreds of Apple IIGS systems for sale.)

> All it would take is one bad RAM chip in the soldered 256K bank and the GS
> will decide there is no (more) RAM present when it does the RAM check.

That's true. I looked further after hearing someone else's useful
suggestion for a possible culprit and eventually determine that the mem
expansion slot in the 03 GS (but not the 00 GS) was indeed 'dinged' so
it wasn't making full contact. Ugh.

I don't think I've got tools small enough to straighten out about four
tongs in the slot's socket. Worst case, suppose I could desolder it
completely and replace it with a pulled socket from another GS (there's
a few GS logic-board-only stuff on sale).

I'm more thrilled that the culprit's been identified, though. :)

-Dan