#: 19899 S1/General Interest
    14-Apr-94  19:03:29
Sb: Laser Printer Memory
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: All

I have an intersting little problem with my Epson Action II Laser printer. I
added a memory upgrade to it awhile ago...things never work out just right. The
printer has 512K internal memory and the memory upgrade claims to be 2meg.
However, when the printer starts up the readout asserts that there is 3meg in
the beast, not 2.5 as it should be. Now, when we monkey with the switches on
the memory upgrade we can fool (?) the printer into think that it has 4.5 meg.
I haven't tried printing in this mode...but I believe it to be wrong. The
memory board is populated with 16 P21014-07 DRAMs. Anyone happen to know what
they are...I assume that they are 1meg x 4. Which means that the board would be
2meg??? On the other hand, maybe I really do have 4 meg on the board? But the
manaul which comes with it does not show how the switches can be configured to
deliver that combination, even though the printer thinks this is the truth? Any
ideas?