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Re: [xpantastic] Xpander -- US & Japanese versions

2006-12-03 by John Pallister

*cough* Er, to be honest I hadn't bothered to compare the schematic to the 
physical board. But you're right; 8K static RAM chips in the diagram, and 2K 
static RAM chips on the board...

And since the serial number on mine is 700290, it looks like I have a Japanese 
Xpander, although the plate on the back doesn't say where it was made. And the 
PSU board clearly has "Made in U.S.A." on it. Interesting.

And I guess our chances of finding schematics of the "last edition" processor 
(and other?) boards are approximately zero...

Cheers,

John :^P

klosmon wrote:
> 
> 
> At 04:47 PM 12/1/2006, you wrote:
> 
>> Cool, thanks for that. The CPU board is the same as the one in my 
>> Xpander, 
> 
> Really?  Have you noticed that the component designations in the 
> schematics are totally different from what's on the board (for example, 
> the schematic lists three RAMs -- U2, U3 and U4;  the board has TWELVE 
> Rams --U29 through U44.  Other differences as well.)
> 
>> What's the serial number on the back? 
> 
> #700156 -- "made in Japan"
> 
> ~GMM

-- 
John Pallister
john@...

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