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- From: eric@sad.hp.com (Eric Lucas)
- Subject: Re: SE with 1Mb SIMMs from IIfx - What Problems?
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:41:51 GMT
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- Eugene C Tsai (etsai@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
- : Hi there,
- : I just helped my roomate install some 1 Mb SIMMs into his SE to
- : upgrade it to 4 Mbs. He bought it from a friend who may have gotten
- : them from a IIfx, though he isn't sure. If these SIMMs did come from a
- : IIfx, what kind of problems would you expect?
- : The SE, after the installation, booted up fine with the finder;
- : however, some applications now no longer work.. ie Word 4.0. I feel
- : guilty since my roomate is currently working on his thesis and is
- : being inconvenienced by this fiasco. Since his SE was one of the older
- : version, we had to cut a resistor (R35). We hope to avoid resoldering
- : it.
- :
- : Thanks,
- : Eugene Tsai
- : etsai@hstbme.mit.edu or etsai@athena.mit.edu
- :
- :
- -----------------------------------------------------
- The fx uses different SIMMs than your SE does. Get them outta there. I'm
- surprised you were able to boot up. I forget the exact specs of the fx simms,
- but I know they are only meant to be used in the fx. Maybe someone could
- shed some light on this. You may as well buy some new simms, they're cheap
- enough.
-
- Eric Lucas
- Hewlett-Packard
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