Adding Memory to 3/60 or 3/80

[Chuck Musciano]

> We received the memory a week before its due to be installed.  Being the
> curious sort, I wanted to look at the "memory board" and I found out that
> it was 4 1-meg SIMMs (80 ns).  At $1500?  Is there something special about
> them?  (Prices in back of PCweek list the same SIMMs for $190 each)

Wow!  Can you say "price gouging"?

We upgraded all of our 60s with four extra megs (to 12 megs).  We bought
SIMMs from Helios at $170/each and installed them ourselves.  Just plug
the SIMMs into the CPU board, move the jumper to the right memory amount,
and boot.  Once up, use the eeprom command to set the "amount of memory"
and "memory to be tested" values to the appropriate value.  See eeprom(8)
for more info.

I assume that expanding a 3/80 is just as simple.

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