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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Reasonably priced IIfx???
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Date: 10 Apr 90 00:35:20 GMT
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In article <7616@goofy.Apple.COM> rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:
>Be careful about RAM. I'm not the expert (so maybe I shouldn't speak up) 
>but I think the IIfx requires faster RAM than a II or IIx (and maybe even 
>a IIci). You can't assume that your used II has RAM that will work in the 
>IIfx.
>
>Any experts who can confirm or deny?

Actually, the IIfx uses a completely different pinout on the SIMM boards
(to speed up reads and writes), so SIMMs that work in other Macs can't be
used in the IIfx regardless of speed.

If you have an investment in 1M SIMMs for a II or IIx, you can always sell
them, though.
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