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From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SIMM chips on a Model 80's motherboard--where?
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Date: 31 Jan 91 00:43:29 GMT
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In article <1991Jan29.044737.724@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, jumper@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Michael Lanham) writes:
> I own a relatively old PS/2 model 80-4016 which means it has a 40MB HD and
> is a 16 MHz 386 MCA bus machine.  It has 1 MB RAM on board and 4 MB on an
> INTEL ABOVEBOARD MC32.  My questions are:
> 1) where in the tower case do I look to see if there are anymore SIMM 
>    slots to be filled on the mother board?
The motherboard does not take SIMMs.
> 2) near the very top of the case there is something that looks like a small
>    half card that plugs into a port (NOT an MCA or XT bus port but rather
>    with a bunch of male pins.  Underneath it is another port which has nothing
>    attached to it.  Is this the actual main memory for the machine?
Yes.
>    The small rows of silver square blocks are not SIMMs but what are they?
IBM memory modules. Third party suppliers (e.g. Kingston) do these boards
at a reasonable price. Don't know about the 80-041 but in my 80-111 this memory
is faster than the bus memory.
> 3) Would it be possible to buy 2MB or 4MB SIMMs to replace the ones in the
>    machine now?  On the motherboard not the INTEL card.
No.
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