WTB: DKB3128 Memory board

[Ral-Clan]

....er....well I'd buy one if someone made it!

I don't agree with Alexh's statement that "most" a3000/4000 owners already have 140+ MBs of RAM on board.  I would say that MOST A3000/4000 owners are still operating in the range of the onboard 16MBs and desperately wanting to expand (this is just based on the specs in signatures I've seen & on A3000s/4000s selling online).

I have 16MB on my A3000s motherboard +32MB on its accelerator.  That's the limit of my hardware at the moment, but it's not enough to do massive audio projects in RAM.  The expansion board would be a great help!

[Ral-Clan]

I've got the mercury PP&S accelerator, which accepts a max of 32MB onboard.

Surely there were more A3000s and 4000s made than accelerators (as many people in the early to mid 90s were happy to use the onboard 030/040s in those computers).

Even generously estimating that there was one accelerator produced for every two A3000/A4000 computers, a third to half of these accelerators were probably Commodore's unexpandable 3640 and third party ones that had the 32/64MB upper limit (especially the tightly cramped A3000D accelerators).  The remaining half could take more RAM (128MB etc.).

This admittedly crude estimate means that for every 4 A3000s/4000s produced, there was only 1 accelerator capable of accepting more than 128 MBs of RAM.  Remember, most were produced in the early 90s when this amount of RAM was seen as outrageous.

I still believe there are far more A3000s/4000s surviving and in use than there are accelerators capable of taking 128MB RAM.

So I think a Zorro III RAM board would be useful.