Greg Easthom wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

RJT>  GE> They say:

RJT>  GE> SIMM 1/2 - 0 + 0
RJT>  GE> SIMM 3/4 - 128 + 128
RJT>  GE> DIMM 1   - 64
RJT>  GE> DIMM 2   - 64

RJT> That adds up to 256M...

 GE> Ummm....  128 + 128 + 64 + 64 = ?

Must be this head cold...

RJT> GE> Chop one up, leaving the metal plate and plugs

RJT> GE>  Sockets        Wires at 10-pin plug
RJT> GE> Line-In tip     1 (stripe)

RJT> All I'd need is to snag the connector for the other end of the
RJT> ribbon cable

 GE> Pretty much any serial I/O port will have one.

I thought of that later on.

 GE> I normally find them still attached to the "dumpster" cases, 
 GE> though they all seem to have only 9-wire ribbons.

I've not actually counted the wires.

 GE> No problem, since wire 7 has no connection. If you can get the 
 GE> plug apart without breaking it, you could trim and slit the 9-wire 
 GE> ribbon and shift 3 wires one notch over.

Depends on the plug,  but I've not had real good luck with that sort of
thing.  We'll see.

Odds are I probably am not going to end up using that onboard stuff anyway,
 at least for the time being.  The stuff I'm reading seems to indicate that
it has a performance penalty attached,  particularly the onboard video. 
And the one time I booted linux with the sound chip enabled the linux
kernel found it and recognized it,  but also said something about working
around the peculiarities of that chip,  I can't recall the exact wording
now.

It'd be different if I was looking at having to go out and buy video and
sound cards,  but I already had 'em on hand here,  not having the built-in
stuff on the other boards,  so they're in there.

What CPU chip are you running in yours?  Apparently the board can handle a
pretty wide range of them,  from what I'm reading.

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