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From: dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: NCD16 memory expansion
Message-ID: <9@ark1.nswc.navy.mil>
Date: 11 Jul 89 19:28:50 GMT
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA
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We have a 1.5MB NCD16 that we'd like to upgrade.  Does it make sense
to go all the way to 4.5MB or is 3MB sufficient.  (Don't laugh, I
*have* to ask.)

In the 1.5MB configuration, the NCD16 has 1/2MB on the motherboard and
four 256k SIMMs occupying its four SIMM sockets.  To upgrade to 4.5MB
requires replacing all four 256k SIMMs with 1MB SIMMs (at $450 each).
To upgrade to 3MB, only two 256k SIMMs would be replaced.

Is it true that "A SIMM is a SIMM is SIMM"?  Could I buy someone
else's 1MB SIMM?  Has anyone done this?

I need replies as soon as possible, of course.

-Dave Sill
 dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil