Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!ames!ncar!tank!uwvax!puff!rt5.cs.wisc.edu!blochowi From: blochowi@rt5.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: MDIdeas Message-ID: <4028@puff.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 13 Dec 89 09:30:59 GMT References: <2423@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@puff.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: blochowi@rt5.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak) Distribution: usa Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 32 In article <2423@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> yk4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Yong Su Kim) writes: >The problem is that I have heard that MDIdeas is out of business. Does >anyone know more about this? They aren't out of business - I publicly retracted that statement awhile back. Unless, of course, they've died within the last month or two, which is possible, if unlikely. However, I should note that they fumbled with my order for awhile (first their credit card machine died, and then when I Express Mail'ed my Cashier's Check to them, it sat at their postal drop site for about a week...). I was rather annoyed that I had ~$200 of RAM sitting in my Apt doing absolutely nothing waiting on a ~$100 card. Oh, well, they were polite about it. >IF they are out of business, I would appreciate it if someone could >send me the full technical specifications for the type of SIMMS used >in the OCTORAM. As someone else pointed out, you can use Mac SIMMs. The guy I talked to at MDIdeas says that you can use IBM SIMMs (which have 9 chips per SIMM, as opposed to 8), but that you'd be wasting your money, as it won't use the last chip (which, I believe, is used for parity checking in IBM machines). I personally have two 1Mb SIMMs, they're 80ns Samsung's. They're low profile, and they still got RFC (really darn close) to whatever I had in slot 7 when I installed it. >|Internet: yk4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu |||||||||||Yong Su Kim|||||||||||| -- Jason Blochowiak - blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu or jason@madnix.uucp "Education, like neurosis, begins at home." - Milton R. Sapirstein