[Coco] Tandy Assembly Exhibit: CocoMEM

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On 10/5/2017 6:14 AM, Francis Swygert wrote:
> Just read your page on CoCoMEM -- impressive indeed! From what I read the memory is soldered to the board and you have been testing 4MB. I can't imagine really needing/using 4MB (well, could pre-load graphics/data for games, fetch from RAM instead of disk/storage as needed... might be faster.. and maybe the ubiquitous RAM drive...), but if you wanted more it would have to be soldered in as well. So one point... are there larger capacity chips that have the same pin-out as the ones used? if so, a simple socket might be the easy way to allow expanded memory -- would take up a lot less room than traditional SIMMs.  Frank Swygert
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Sadly, sockets are not available for the small IC packaging SRAM options 
utilize.  And, the packaging changes between sizes (2x2MB is what's on 
the board, while larger options require a different PCB footprint).

Jim

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