Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news From: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 4 MBytes Simms Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 90 12:58:43 GMT References: <621@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <1990Oct28.162406.15638@athena.mit.edu> <129@odie.UUCP> Sender: news@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Brigham Young University Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: treed@odie.UUCP's message of 29 Oct 90 03:49:31 GMT >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. This is simply not true. See my rather long reply to another post in this thread. -Bill- -- __________________Prof. William V. Smith____________________ EMail: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu or uunet!hamblin.math.byu.edu!smithw SMail: Math Dept. -- 314 TMCB; BYU; Provo, UT 84602 (USA) Phone: +1 801 378 2061 FAX: +1 801 378 2800