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- From: leonglaw@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Lawrence LEONG)
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 15:05:05 GMT
- Subject: Re: H-P Vectra RS/16 Memory Question
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- In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, 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
-
- i once had this on my table (i've migrated to a unix machine). my prev
- machine was 1989 vintage, i stuffed all 8 simm slots with 1m simms, the
- machine booted up, no problem. ran win 3.0 etc. ymmv.
-
- lawrence
-