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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Reasonably priced IIfx???
Message-ID: <134231@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 90 18:20:06 GMT
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In article <23538.2620efdc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>, ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
> In article <7616@goofy.Apple.COM>, rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:
> > References:<9573@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1990Apr08.043521.1151@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <2337@network.ucsd.edu> <10939@portia.Stanford.EDU> <2338@network.ucsd.edu>
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> You can be *certain* it won't work...
> The IIfx uses 64-pin SIMMS!
> "Old" RAM won't work at all... and the 64-pin SIMMS are only available
> from Apple (can you say proprietary?)

At least one third-party vendor has announced that they will be
selling the fancy 64-pin SIMMs...for about half of Apple's
price.  (Apple gets them from *somebody, they don't make their
own memory chips.)

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