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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: melott on January 15, 2003, 11:29:07 PM
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Hi..
Am I having a senior moment or what ??
I bought a Retina Z2 card from a resaler
in Canada. He said it had 2megs memory installed.
The card has 16 chip slots with "16" 256x4 chips.
It seems that adds up to 4 megs ram????
Also I bought on EBay "8" 1mx4 s.c. zips which
the seller said is 4megs. I checked the numbers
on the chips and they are TOSHIBA TC514402
which my A3k book says are 1mx4 chips.
So if I'm not losing it, 8 chips add up to 8 megs.
So am I wrong, or are they wrong?
Mel Ott
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IIRC the X4 part means 4 bits. In order to get 1M by a byte you need two chips. You have to divide the number of chips by 2 to get MB. So 8 1X4's would be 4MB.
16 256X4's would be 16/2 to get bytes = 8 /4 again for only being 256K = 2MB.
I hope that makes sense.
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