Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!amdahl!evelyn From: evelyn@uts.amdahl.com (Evelyn Mast) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: SIMMs for IIsi - what do I need? Message-ID: Date: 18 Dec 90 01:26:45 GMT References: <1CE00001.0b2um2@tbomb.ice.com> Reply-To: evelyn@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Evelyn Mast) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 28 In article <1CE00001.0b2um2@tbomb.ice.com> time@tbomb.ice.com writes: > >In article <111547@convex.convex.com>, woods@convex.com (Darrin Woods) writes: >> Thank you. I have nothing against putting faster chips in a machine >> when there are chips already in the machine that are slower. As long >> as they all meet the required speed or faster this is acceptable. > >This is not exactly true now is it? > >I just went to move some 80ns SIMMs from my IIfx into my IIx. >Guess What? They do not fit. Sockets are different sizes. > >Am I missing something here? Different speed SIMMs have different >socket dimensions, right? > >tim. My understanding of this situation (without having my documentation right in front of me) is that the SIMMs in the IIfx are TOTALLY different than those used in all the other current Macs. So I would not expect what you tried to work. Sorry. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evelyn Mast evelyn@amdahl.com I didn't mean it - I swear evelyn@key.amdahl.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------