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- From: wardrb@cs.utexas.edu (Richard Byron Ward)
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- Subject: Re: help me identify my RAM type
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 15:03:57 -0500
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- |In article <1992Sep8.152724.8411@news.iastate.edu> atzeiner@iastate.edu (your mom) writes:
- |>I'm probably going to get 4Meg of ram to upgrade to 8 total. I need to know
- |>what type to get. I think they're SIMM's but I'm not sure. The chips in
- |>my computer now say:
- |>
- |> T21010-07
- |> K117A KOREA
- |>
- the -07 tells you that the chip is rated at 70 nanoseconds. Once you figure
- out what kind of packaging you are looking at (SIMM, SIPP, chips) you can
- order your new RAM. I think that IBM computers use 9 bit RAM (1 parity bit)
- and Macintoshes use 8 bit RAM (no parity), but don't quote me.
-
- Rick
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