Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!hess From: hess@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Caleb Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith Subject: Re: Zenith 386 SIMM's (was: Boat Anchors) Message-ID: <52203@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 26 Jul 90 16:39:38 GMT References: <8550@ur-cc.UUCP> <82453@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 8 In article <82453@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Andrew Pitonyak writes: >386 machines at 25 and 33 Mhz. They apparantly don't take standard simms. >I just ordered four meg at $149 a meg. Any one know what differs between the >standard SIMMs and the Zenith SIMMs? The new SIMM's are 36 bits wide (4 bytes plus 4 parity bits) instead of 9 bits. I have seen them in both 1 megabyte (256k x 32) and 4 megabyte (1 meg x 32) sizes.