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From: kerry@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kerry Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 256K SIMMS
Keywords: SIMMS 256K
Message-ID: <1990Aug12.200642.545@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 12 Aug 90 20:06:42 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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I currently have a MacII with 2 meg installed (8*256K SIMMs).  Although this 
amount of memory is sufficient to run most things, there are quite a few
applications appearing which I cannot run, and this will get worse in the
future.  As luck would have it, I have another megabyte of 256K SIMMs in a
box on the shelf that I cannot use since all 8 SIMM slots are occupied.  Is
there a means by which the extra 256K SIMMS could be used?  I'm thinking of
some sort of carrier board which could perhaps plug in and supply extra 
256K slots.  What are the implications of having an odd memory size, such 
as 3Meg?  It would seem to me that there is a large amount of 256K SIMMS
out there which could be used cheaply in this manner, if there were a way.
Should I not even consider this upgrade option and merely acquire fresh 1Mb
SIMMs?