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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
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- Subject: Re: .. W A I T ... Don't toss those 256K S I M M S !!! (mixing SIMM sizes)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.173038.4963@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 17:30:38 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.000632.18587@venice.sedd.trw.com> <56727@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug13.000632.18587@venice.sedd.trw.com>
- >gilmore@venice.sedd.trw.com (Larry Gilmore) writes:
- >> In article <1992Aug12.150024.16906@sherpa.uucp> david@sherpa.uucp (Dave
- >Quarles) writes:
-
- >>>We here at St. Petersburg Junior College have 2 meg SE's for the faculty
- >>>that have 2 slots empty that could use 2-256K SIMMS to add enough ram
- >>>for them to use Multifinder. Believe it or not .5 meg makes a
- >>>difference !!
-
- >>Couldn't get there via email- don't forget that you cannot mix SIMM
- >>sizes within the same bank.
-
- >A bank of SIMM slots on an SE is just two slots, unlike SE/30's, Mac II's
- >and Quadras (i.e. machines that use 68020/30/40 CPU's as opposed to the
- >68000 in an SE), where a bank of SIMM slots is four slots.
-
- This catch-all statement isn't necessarily true for all cases of
- '020, and '030 class machines. Ever looked inside a Classic II or an LC
- or LCII? All of these machines have just 2 slots for SIMMS yet are
- either '020 or '030 based Macs.
-
- >Therefore, if he says he wants 2-256K SIMMS for an SE, it follows that he
- >is not mixing SIMM sizes within the same bank.
-
- This is only true for Macs of equal or older age than the SE.
-
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