In 1987 i wanted to grade up my Atari 260ST to an unbelievible RAM-size of 1 MB.
There was printed a guide in a german magazine, which showed step by step how to put 512 kB in 16 Chips on top of the already mounted ones.
I was a little bit anxious because of the soldering. I frightened, the heat could kill the built in RAM or other chips of my beloved Atari.
So i first bent the adress and data pins of the new RAM chips, so the got (i thought) good contact to their counterparts on the board.
I put double sided sticky band on the built in chips and pressed the new chips onto them. Then i soldered some (2?) signal-pins to cables and the cables to the board.
I switched on, my monitor kept black.
I switched off and drew the chips from their mounts, then tried to bend it better (i thought).
After switching on, the monitor still was black.
I said "shit the dog on it" (a german proverb) to myself and soldered all pins of all chips.
It worked instantly.
First i have to say that i am no wizard, guru or another higher lifeform...
I am german and for that i was a great fan of SuSE back in the good old days of '95.
My old notebook (Medion built '96) lead me to Debian: It was not possible for me to install SuSE 7.0 on that oldtimer with pentium 100, 24 Megs of RAM and no CDRom.
(Further versions did'nt either.)
Debian Potato was easy to install over LAN and now i am proud to say, that i have just installed a full Woody system, mostly over http. (You should see KDE working on that cute hardware.)
Try that with SuSE.
A last remark: Yast maybe great eyecandy and present a good structure of the packets, but for me the packet management of Debian is much more reliable!
OT: Personal FIRST POST
I just created a/. account to write that.
(Reading for 3? 4? years.)
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In 1987 i wanted to grade up my Atari 260ST to an unbelievible RAM-size of 1 MB. There was printed a guide in a german magazine, which showed step by step how to put 512 kB in 16 Chips on top of the already mounted ones.
I was a little bit anxious because of the soldering. I frightened, the heat could kill the built in RAM or other chips of my beloved Atari. So i first bent the adress and data pins of the new RAM chips, so the got (i thought) good contact to their counterparts on the board. I put double sided sticky band on the built in chips and pressed the new chips onto them. Then i soldered some (2?) signal-pins to cables and the cables to the board.
I switched on, my monitor kept black. I switched off and drew the chips from their mounts, then tried to bend it better (i thought). After switching on, the monitor still was black.
I said "shit the dog on it" (a german proverb) to myself and soldered all pins of all chips.
It worked instantly.
Oh those blessed days of indestroyable hardware!
"We landed on the moon, we carried a harpoon"
I knew it was prophecy...
First i have to say that i am no wizard, guru or another higher lifeform... I am german and for that i was a great fan of SuSE back in the good old days of '95. My old notebook (Medion built '96) lead me to Debian: It was not possible for me to install SuSE 7.0 on that oldtimer with pentium 100, 24 Megs of RAM and no CDRom. (Further versions did'nt either.) Debian Potato was easy to install over LAN and now i am proud to say, that i have just installed a full Woody system, mostly over http. (You should see KDE working on that cute hardware.) Try that with SuSE. A last remark: Yast maybe great eyecandy and present a good structure of the packets, but for me the packet management of Debian is much more reliable! OT: Personal FIRST POST I just created a /. account to write that.
(Reading for 3? 4? years.)