Simmfonie/Amifast/X-Calibur or other A3000 RAM device

[dnelsonfl]

I spent about $100 on a used Fastlane for the 64MB RAM it would hold. 30pin SIMMs, yes, but they're not that expensive. I bought a lot of 'em for about $5 and fully populated it to 64MB. 'Course the SCSI part of it may never work right on the A3000, but the memory works fine.

-David

[dnelsonfl]

@Multiview,

The Fastlane only supports 64MB. Whenever they pop up for sale, the seller always mentions that 256MB option. In reality very few (if any?) of those add-on options were made. It's easy to check if you've got a lucky one: stick a few 1MB SIMMs on it. If it recognizes them, sorry, it's not the 256MB flavor.

The RAM works great on the A3000, which is why I mentioned it. Forget the SCSI. A lucky few have gotten it to work fine, but that's not the norm. Buster-11 is preferred, and nothing came up about the DMAC and Ramsey having to be upgraded. That's probably for the A3640 and a whole 'nother story in and of itself.

While on the subject of ram expansion for the 3000, were there any other ZIII ram expansions made besides the DKB 3128?

-David