Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!jdevoto
From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 9-bit SIMMs for Macs
Keywords: SIMMS
Message-ID: <43292@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Jul 90 23:38:28 GMT
References: <1969@aber-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1969@aber-cs.UUCP> cho@uk.ac.aber.cs (Chris Orgill) writes:
>A local dealer says he can beat U.K. SIMM prices by supplying 9-bit
>SIMMs instead of the 8-bit ones.   [...]    Will they work o.k....?

They should work fine. The Mac circuitry just ignores the line from
the parity (9th) chip on the SIMM.
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