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Author 360/30 memory expansion (was Re: 64 gig memory)
Eric Smith

2007-09-01, 4:20 am

Sven Pran
> They told me that IBM offered a possibility to install 96K on the 30 and


Was that an RPQ? Did they install it on many machines?
John W. Kennedy

2007-09-01, 7:17 pm

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Eric Smith wrote:
> Sven Pran
>
> Was that an RPQ?


I never even heard of it, but if it existed, it was definitely an RPQ.

We had an RPQ to boost our 40 to 384KB. It actually required a new front
panel, because a standard 40 showed only 18 address bits.

--
John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is
about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W.
W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
-- C. S. Lewis. "An Experiment in Criticism"
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