EIII Memory max?

[80sboy]

Sorry if this has been touched on before, but I read through all the forums and googled everything I could think of before asking this..

  Is 8mb REALLY the max that an EIII can use? There are 2mb and 4mb 30pinn simms out there, i just can't find any info as to wether or not the Pal chips can recognize more than 1mb simms.

  Anyone expanded their EIII beyond 8mb?

 Thanks!

80sboy
tom

[lubb]

The max. memory of an EIII is 8MB...

32 voices and 16 MB of sample RAM were announced in adverts in May 1988, but these upgrades never materialised.

[powmax]

and a point of fact you can actually put 16 megs in an EIII, if you happened to have gotten the proper (last) firmware chip from e-mu when they were still in business before the ensoniq buyout. a friend has one that i helped him boost to 16 megs you just need to source 4 meg 30 pin simms...

Could this be true or did he meant the EIII(x)

[jazzyjoepass]

I'd like to know too. I've got an 8Mb EIII and I still have spare RAM slots.

[dr.c]

Never heard about this... I always got told that the microcontroler board couls handle ony 8 megs