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From: marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Missing IIsi ROM SIMM ???
Message-ID: <47545@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 90 21:08:24 GMT
References: <3624@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <3624@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>Well, I'll freely confess to not having any knowledge of hardware, but...
>
>I just installed 4MB memory in two Macintosh IIsi's, which were
>ordered in identical configuration but which arrived about 3 weeks
>apart.  (Memory was from Chip Merchant, by the way.  Installation
>was a snap.  Memory worked perfectly).
>
>I noticed that the second machine didn't have the card installed that
>sits next to the RAM SIMM slots.  "Odd, I thought.  What is it?" and
>peered closer to the circuit board.  It says "ROM SIMM" by the card
>bay.
>
>So I have two "identical" machines, except that one is apparently
>missing its ROM!  But it works...
>
>What's the deal?
>
Probably means they finally got the ROMs that they put on the logic board
in production (the ROM SIMMs are more expensive).

Mark


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