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John, I don't know whether a memory board made any difference to the links on the main board. I can check though, my original "MTX512" also had only 32k on the main board, with the extra 32k on a RAM card. I will have a look later. Given what you said about the RS232 plastics though, it may be that ...

Yes,

sorry John, it is 3mm screw with a 2mm Allen key head

regards
Dave

Hi John, the Service Manual (available on my Manuals page) confirms that the link arrangement and PAL colour coding are consistent with an MTX 500 with 32k of "H" RAM chips. (The PAL is the chip with the blue coloured dot on it). If there was an additional 32K RAM board, it would have been plugged i...

Hi John, The original idea that Lez had for a group of Memotech enthusiasts developing Z80 systems did stall. I think I was the only person on here that was interested in doing it, most folks here are pretty much software orientated. There is a similar thread on a Tatung Einstein forum which did see...

Hi Claus,

yes, that's the way to do it!

regards
Dave

Claus,

if you need any help with moderating the forum to validate new users etc. I'm happy to help out.

regard
Dave

Claus, the board is at risk of losing any value if the ever increasing amount of SPAM is allowed to continue. I know that we don't get a lot of messages at the best of times, but the amount of SPAM seems to be disproportionately high - and getting worse. Is there anythingt that can be done to restri...

Thanks John,

done!

regards
Dave

But the MTX512 **DID** have 512K of memory!



- Bits that is

regards
Dave

Oh well, never mind. As you say, beautiful machines. There are a couple of options to upgrade the RAM, as it is highly unlikely you'll find a Memotech 32K expansion, there's my sorry tale of woe when I tried it here http://primrosebank.net/computers/mtx/projects/ramupgrade/ramupgrade.htm If you don'...