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- From: art@hpmcaa (Art Burkhalter)
- Subject: Re: H-P Vectra RS/16 Memory Question
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:18:10 GMT
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- rab@hal.cwru.edu (Roger Bielefeld) writes:
- > I've just inherited responsibility for caring for two old H-P
- > Vectra RS/16 machines. Each contains one meg of memory in the
- > form of four 256K SIMM's. I'd like to upgrade each to four
- > megs of memory right away and eventually to eight megs.
- >
- > I'd like to fill four of the sixteen SIMM sockets on each machine
- > with 1M SIMM's and later add four more SIMM's to each. However, I
- > RTFM'ed and it specified sixteen 256K SIMM's to achieve four megs.
- > I'd really rather not have to scrounge up that many 256K SIMM's and
- > then have to get rid of them when I go to eight megs. So, my question
- > is whether anyone happens to know whether I can just install four 1M
- > SIMM's instead of sixteen 256K SIMM's in these particular machines.
- >
- > Thanks!
- >
- > Roger
- > --
- > Roger Bielefeld Case Western Reserve University
- > rab@hal.cwru.edu Cleveland, Ohio USA
-
-
- According to the (probably newer version of the) setup manual that
- came with my RS/20... you may use the 1MB SIMMs. The 100 nSec
- SIM modules are what is recommended for the RS/16 (not the 80 nSec).
-
- You may install 4MB using the 4 slots in "A"
- 8MB using the slots in "A" & "B"
- 16MB using all slots... and
- 10MB using 8MB in "A" & "B" and 256k modules in "C"
- and "D"
-
- Good Luck!
-
- Art (with no fancy sig) Burkhalter
-