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- From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
- Subject: Re: H-P Vectra RS/16 Memory Question
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:04:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.010400.1120@openage.openage.com>
- References: <1992Aug26.190557.21904@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <62890003@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com>
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- leonglaw@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Lawrence LEONG) writes:
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- >In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, rab@hal.cwru.edu (Roger Bielefeld) writes:
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- >|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
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- >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.
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- >lawrence
-
- No problem. I just to run an RS/20c with 4 1MB SIMMs.
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