Posted By
MMS
on 2019-07-30
03:09:45
 |  Re: what are the odds of massive failure of plus 4
Thank you for the updated infos.
Well, I should go to the attic and find my 3 or 4 dead Plus/4s, and check what should be swapped. 8501 and PLA are highly probable, and then I am lucky  Less fortunate when TED is dead.
About 256KB RAM: I think it is a major step forward for mankind , and 512KB as a future in Hannes mode would be super.
As a remark: the original Macintosh with 68000 CPU + 384×256 resolution + GUI released with 128K, and was able to manage MacPaint and MacWrite. The finally successful (and MS Office compliant) version had 512KB, and it was able to manage postscript and so.
According to my personal view 256KB is nice and enough for a 8bit computer, and 512KB in 1984 was enough to support a really legendary and successful 16bit computer of the period (with similar resolution, Amiga required for the top-notch gfx and multichannel music more memory to be on the safe side, namely 1MB).
512KB would be enough to keep in memory a disc based graphical adventure game's all scene's picture at the same time.
So it is a pretty huge RAM (even 256K too).
PS: sorry for the previous typos, I had battery issues on keyboard
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