Re: [NTLK] Follow-up to Newton upgrades

From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 13:20:21 EST


On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 05:31 AM, Jeremy Wood wrote:
>

<snip>
> It also takes a
> pretty skilled technician with some pretty nice soldering tools to take
> such a chip off, and put one back on. A
> pretty risky procedure that would leave a good number of dead chips if
> done in quanity.

<snip>
Actually it's certainly within the realm of Dr. Newtons
abilities/equipment.

Is this type of upgrade actually documented somewhere? Or is it a
Newtonian legend?
> My personal take on the matter is that a PC card with a hunk of smart
> memory that's 128 MB is much more practical. (Thanks to Paul!)
>
<snip>

Probably true. unless you happen to need both card slots for something
else.

Marty

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