Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 256k simms Keywords: memory Message-ID: <1990Sep12.205359.10469@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 12 Sep 90 20:53:59 GMT References: Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 20 In article gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel) writes: >I can get a few 256k simms from some macs which had their memory upgraded. >I'm thinking about putting 8 of them in my 8 meg NeXT to get 10 meg. >Does anybody know if this will work? Well, I tried to give my NeXT 13M with four 256K SIMMS from my SE/30. These were rather unconventional SIMMS, and had "for SE/30 CPU only" stamped on them. Assuming that a SIMM was a SIMM and a stamp was a marketing ploy, I gave it a try. Pequod decided that the SIMMS were 1M SIMMS, and that they were in a world of hurt. After removing them, all was well. I don't know how normal SIMMS would work (the SE/30 SIMMS had only 2 chips on a 256K SIMM board). By the way, putting SIMMS in a NeXT is easy. Getting them back out is a whole different story. There must be a tool out there somewhere that I don't know about. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner