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- From: Joe.Miles@anu.edu.au
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: IIsi simms
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 08:08:24 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- References: <6615@news.duke.edu> <noah-041192153257@noah.apple.com>
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- In article <noah-041192153257@noah.apple.com> noah@apple.com (Noah Price)
- writes:
- >In article <6615@news.duke.edu>, mur@phy.duke.edu (Daniel Murphy) wrote:
- >> I just added more memory to a IIsi in my group. I thought that I could use
- >> the original 1 Meg simms in a Mac II that I have floating around. However,
- >> when I added the IIsi simms to the Mac II, the machine wouldn't recognize
- >> them. I wasn't aware of any unique simms for the IIsi. These simms only
- >> have two chips on them, located on either end, seperated by a large space.
- >> There seems to be space for two more chips on these simms. Does anyone have
-
- >> information on this? I'd like to use these simms in an SE/30 if I can...
- >
- >These SIMMs are using 4 Mbit DRAM chips (each chip is 4-bits wide). The
- >original Mac II (and IIx) can not use this DRAM without a special PAL in
- >place to mask a test mode.
- >
- >The SIMMs should be fine in your SE/30, or any other Mac (assuming the
- >chips are fast enough) except the Mac II or IIx. DRAM SIMMs from a IIsi
- >would be fast enough for an LC, LC II, IIsi, SE/30, IIcx or IIvx (or
- >II/IIx, but they're eliminated due to the 4 Mbit DRAM... hope I didn't miss
- >any!).
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-
- No! That is not strictly correct. Simms using consisting of 2 (or 3) chips
- that are really 4mbit dies arranged as 1M * 4bits will not work in any Mac II,
- IIx. Also will not work in Plus, SE and Classic due to insufficiently
- frequent memory refreshes .... the memory becomes forgetful.
-
- Ref: Apple technote #176 page 21,22
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