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From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Simm installation
Message-ID: <257DB050.20260@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 89 00:35:27 GMT
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reyes@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Alex Reyes) writes:

>I recently received four 1 meg simms from the chip merchants for my IICX.
>I figured that I would leave the four original 256k simms in bank A and
>install the four new 1 meg simms in bank B. When I booted the system it 
>would indicate only 2 megs total ram. I then reinstalled the four 1 meg
>simms in bank A and the 256k simms in bank B. When I booted the system
>again I got the correct configuration of 5 megs total ram. Was it really
>necessary to install the 1 meg simms in bank A and the smaller 256 in
>bank B [...]

Yes.

From what I understand, the only Mac where this is NOT the case in the 
Mac IIci.

  --scott

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Scott Truesdell