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From: treed@odie.UUCP (Timothy Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 4 MBytes Simms
Message-ID: <129@odie.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 90 03:49:31 GMT
References: <621@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <1990Oct28.162406.15638@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1990Oct28.162406.15638@athena.mit.edu> erikkay@athena.mit.edu (Erik Kay) writes:
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>David G. Cantor writes:
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>>> I finally found third-party 4Mbyte simms that actually FIT in the
>>> cpu board of the cube....
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>>> They were specially made to fit into the NeXT.
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>To the best of my knowledge, no simms have been "specially made to fit
>into the NeXT".  To get simms which will fit into your cube, all you
>have to do is make sure you specify "low-profile" simms.  They are
>slightly slimmer than normal profile.  There are many chip retailers
>who sell these.

Sorry.  Normal "low profile" simms do not - I repeat - do not fit
in a cube.  Toshiba chips are a necessary ingredient, but the simm
manufacturer must arrange them properly to make physically smaller
board.  Buy off the shelf low profile simms and prepare to be
humiliated by tech support when you get stuck with >$1,000 of boards
that don't fit.  Yes, it is possible to take the cube apart, change
some stuff, and put it together again, but it will put your system
totally out of spec and unsupportable - i.e. the people you bought
your cube from will find out that you made h/w mods, and laugh
heartily you ask for support under your warrantee.  (If you really
want guaranteed-beyond-hardware-upgrades, fully supportable, etc.,
RAM, buy from the vendor.)

However, David Cantor makes a valid point: at least vendors sell
4 MB simms that fit.  This is a pretty significant deal for those
who want third party for sure.  It's also cool cause this is a
sign that second tier vendors, (i.e. not lotus or wordperfect, 
who would probably not notice a software effort on yet-to-be 
established h/w), are reacting to our presence in the workstation
market.  David's news plus the establishment of the NeXT-Connection
mail order house warms my object-oriented, message-passing heart.
Pretty neat.

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>Erik Kay
>MIT class of '92

Tim Reed
Objective Tech.
treed@object.com