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- From: nelsonis@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Ian S. Nelson)
- Subject: Re: model 77 floppy disk ? size??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.000933.23823@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:09:33 GMT
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- price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes:
- >On paper, the 77 is a nice machine, but for a couple of reasons, I got a
- >Gateway EISA tower anyway: Max memory is 32MB on the 77, it has limited extra
- >drive space, and less slots. Max Memory at 32 means that if the tech specs
- >printed are correct, NO additional memory cards will be usable in the machine.
- >I'm not sure why IBM did that. 32MB fits on the motherboard using 8MB SIMMS.
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- Why exactly would you need more than 32Mbytes on a 486? Not too many OSes even
- make use of that much. If you are serious about UNIX, then buy a workstation,
- it is a much smarter idea. Limited extra drive space is a semi valid argument,
- but again, the m77 isn't supposed to be a server or anything, if you want to
- get one of the bigboys, buy the model 95xp.
- --
- Ian S. Nelson I speak for only my self, not my school.
- Finger for a PGP public key.
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