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Offline Zac67

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I had contacted 'amix68k' a couple of weeks ago and he acted surprised and pointed to his positive feedbacks - the lack of negative fbs seems to indicate that
- there's no problem reversing the deal
- these chips actually do work (I don't think so)
- none of the buyers has actually used the chips
- the buyers knew better and used the zips for something else...
 

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Re: Warning to ALL! German guy selling A3000 ZIPS on eBay! BAD!
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2007, 04:36:23 PM »
No. The A3000's memory is arranged in banks of 8 chips, each 4 bits wide (8x4 = 32 bits). Thus 8x 514400 (1Mx4) yield 1Mx32, equaling 4 MByte (4Mx8).
(Alternatively 514256 (256Kx4) can be used, but this is of no importance here.)

Your sets of 8x 511000 (1Mx1) result in 1Mx8 - which is nothing any Amiga could use, since it's only 8 bits wide and even an A1000 needs 16 bits.

You state:
"Die hier angebotenen Module waren in einem Amiga verbaut (ich meine auf dem Motherboard eines 3000ers), wo genau, weiss ich nicht mehr."
"The offered modules were used in an Amiga"
- definitely not - eventually in sets of 16 or 32
"(i mean on the motherboard of a 3000),"
- more definitely not, see above
"where exactly I don't know any more."
- erm, you just said it was an A3k mainboard, just two words later you don't remember??

The modules seem to have been desoldered - the A3000 carries sockets for everything but the 1st MB chip ram (DIP).
 

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Re: Warning to ALL! German guy selling A3000 ZIPS on eBay! BAD!
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2007, 08:22:36 PM »
Great - thanks!