Re: Cheap SRAM

Isaiah Beard (poet@remus.rutgers.edu)
Thu, 4 Jul 1996 04:18:00 -0400

On Jul 3, 12:20pm, Michael Halleen wrote:

> > I have just located the 2M SRAM card offered by Direct Mobile
> > (www.directmobile.com) cost only $115. Has anyone tried it? Any problem?
> > Why is it so cheap compare to AchTech? AchTech offer their 1M version at
> > $129!
>
> I bought the 1mb card from direct mobile, and it was labeled wrong.
> "this side down" should have been "this side up". I ended up breaking
> the card eject lever on my Ogo as a result. Direct Mobile has bent over
> backwards to fix it for me, so I'm happy with them, but be sure to check
> it out for yourself.

Had the same problem with the RAM card they gave me. FOrtunately for
me, I stopped trying to use the eject lever after it wouldn't give the first
few tries and since I still had the edge of the card sticking out of the slot,
I was able to yank it out (undamaged too! <G>) using pliers.

Also, I tried ordering the 2MB SRAM card from Direct Mobile, but the
salesperson told me that their 2MB cards will NOT run properly on the OGO, and
recommended just sticking to the 1MB cards.