Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mcnc!uvaarpa!haven!umd5!umd5.umd.edu!anderson From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen R. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 4MB SIMMs from Chip Merchant: 4MBx9 yes 4MBx8 no Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 91 21:59:14 GMT References: <1324@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University Lines: 34 In-reply-to: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU's message of 16 Feb 91 11:19:31 GMT Eric- I read this article with some interest, since I had 16 Mbytes of 4 Mx8 SIMMS just delivered from Chip Merchant sitting on my desk waiting to be installed along with my '040 upgrade. Well, rather than give up, I went ahead and installed them anyway.....and they work just fine. I put the 8 1x8 SIMMs from the '030 board in, and added another bank of these Chip Merchant 4x8's, and the machine came up with no problem (and reports 24 Mbytes physical memory in /usr/adm/messages). I suspect that you actually DID get defective SIMMs. The ones I put in look just like your diagram, and I think we must have the same kind, but as I say, mine seem to work fine. I should mention that the extra height makes it a tight squeeze to get the board back in the cube, but it does (just barely) go. I bought mine from Chip Merchant partly because they were a little cheaper, but more importantly because Peripheral Outlet (I think it was them - anyway the place that several people have posted about recently: my apologies to Peripheral Outlet if I'm wrong) has stopped taking Purchase Orders. I've gotten good service from Chip Merchant before (these were ordered on Monday, the PO was faxed to them on Tuesday, and they arrived on Friday), and no SIMMs I've bought from them have ever given me any problems (as opposed to some I've bought elsewhere, for Suns). The only thing is that you have to be pretty sure yourself what you want, since the people at Chip Merchant can be guaranteed not to know anything more than the name of what they're selling. They do know that they have "80 nanosecond low profile 4meg by 8 SIMMs": YOU have to know that that's what you want. They've never heard of a NeXT ("Is it IBM compatible? We sell SIMMs for Macs and IBM compatibles.") Steve Anderson