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From: ekrimen@csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
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Subject: Re: SIMMS, 6888#s - STe
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Date: 9 Sep 90 17:56:40 GMT
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- I ordered my 1040STe today!!! and I plan on popping in memory as 
- soon as it gets here.  I beleave that standard 1 Meg x 8 SIMMS will
- pop into the machine and you have at most 4 banks of them.  Does the
- 1040STe generally come with 4 banks of 256K memory chips or does it
- have one bank of 1 Meg chips?  i.e.  do I have to order 4 megs of 
- chips or only 3?  Do I have to wait and see?
 
They come with 4 banks of 256K SIMMs.  Due to the hardware, it's 
impossible to have one bank of 1 meg SIMMs.  (Although I know some 
clever German will come up with a fix for it.  :^)  
 
- The STe can't take the 4 Meg chips right?  (Do 4 Meg chips have 
- more pins?)
 
I don't know if there's any pin difference, but the MMU can only take 
4 megs and you can't have just one bank anyway.  (Then again, I'm 
sure a clever German will fix this.)
 
I tried pulling out SIMMs and it's really hard if you've never seen 
anyone do it before.  Just pull straight up from one side a little to
loosen it and then from the other to pull it out completely.  After
you do it, and pop it in again, you'll be surprised how easy it is.  
It takes a bit of strength.  Does anyone know if there's a chance of 
the socket coming out as well?  Those SIMMs are really tight!
 
*** On a related note, does ANYONE know where to get SIMMFIX, the 
*** small AUTO folder program that allows 2.5 megs in an STe???