Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!dali!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Why not SIMMs? (was Re: A3000) Message-ID: <11288@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 3 May 90 17:45:59 GMT References: <79733@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <744@sagpd1.UUCP> <2252@awdprime.UUCP> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 19 In article tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) writes: >In article <2252@awdprime.UUCP> robin@sabre.austin.ibm.com (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) writes: >> The specs I have say 4Meg in 1Meg ZIPS and 16Meg in 4Meg ZIPS. >It would seem foolish for any new personal workstation to not use >something as common (and cheap) as SIMMs... What am I missing? SIMMs cost more than ZIPs. Also, they weren't available in a low enough profile for our needs; the memory in the 3000 sits underneath where a Coprocessor slot card goes. The 4 Meg ZIPs clear such a card by about 0.1". > ...tad -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "I have been given the freedom to do as I see fit" -REM