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- From: palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane)
- Subject: Re: Micronics (Gateway) VL-Bus motherboards don't accept regular SIMMs
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Dec21.121035.45833@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:23:47 GMT
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- In <1992Dec21.121035.45833@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> nschaper@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
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- >I think all of the Gateway VL-Bus systems use Micronics motherboards.
- >Anyway, it seems that these motherboards take some strange, non-standard
- >type of RAM. Talking to a sales rep at Gateway, I found out that they want
- >$165 (U.S. dollars) for each additional 4Meg of RAM. When I commented that
- >that price seemed high, the salesperson told me that these motherboards
- >do not accept SIMMs. She said they take "EISA memory" (whatever that is).
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- I believe Gateway uses a proprietary memory board to which you can add
- memory chips (perhaps SIMMs). $165/4MB is a bit steap but not excessive.
-
- >Can anybody explain this? I'm sure this could affect the decisions of many
- >others that are considering a Micronics VL-Bus motherboard.
-
- I don't think that this is related to the Gateway being a VL-Bus, but this
- has been standard on Gateway computers for awhile.
-
- Paul
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