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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SIMM memory speed for MacII - 120ns?
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Date: 29 Jan 91 22:29:55 GMT
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In article <HARDIN.91Jan29092602@dino.cad.mcc.com> hardin@dino.cad.mcc.com (John Hardin) writes:
>I *thought* a ("plain Jane") MacII's SIMM memory needed to be rated no
>slower than 120nS.  However, I called the Chip Merchant yesterday, and
>was told by the saleswoman to whom I spoke that "120nS is not fast
>enough - you need 80nS SIMMs."  Can someone set this confusion
>straight?  (Personally, I think she was merely out of 120nS SIMMs and
>wanted to sell me 80nS SIMMs! :-)
>

120ns is plenty fast-- I'm still using 120ns SIMMs in one bank of my 5MB mac
II.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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