Re: Lego board, memory expansion questions

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <6j5bn5$qk8$1@metro.usyd.edu.au>,
Adrian Whichello <adrianw@cassius.ee.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>2) If I ever wanted to expand the memory card (unlikely - 1.25M in a rom 01 is
>still fairly useless for gs/os, but you never know, I might be given a rom 3
>next time!), where is a good place to find 256K x 1 bit ram chips nowadays?

   Old 286 motherboards-- hunt around computer scrapyards or the like.

>3) OA-control-esc brings up the control panel dialogue like usual, but it's on
>the 80 column screen width (my rom 3 uses the 40 column screen). Is this a
>difference between rom 01/rom 3's?

   No, the CDA menu uses the 40/80 column setting from the Control
Panel -> Display screen, as does the initial poweron/bootup screens.
Sounds like the last person to use the machine preferred that, but you
can put it back to something you expect.

Nathan Mates
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