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From: jcav@ellis.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: mac II fx and NTX SIMMs
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.034111.17185@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 03:41:11 GMT
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In article <27185@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> dth@shark.cis.ufl.edu (David Hightower) writes:
>In article <1991Feb26.185216.24473@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> nevai@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes:
>>Is it true that the IIfx and NTX SIMMs are the same? I have 8 1Mb SIMMs
>>taken out of a IIfx. Can they be used in an NTX? I also have some 256K
>>NTX SIMMs. Are they OK for a IIfx?
>
>According the the new issue of MacUser, this is indeed the case.  It
>seems that the SIMMs for the IIfx and the LWNTX both have more contacts
>than do the regular Mac SIMMs, to avoid slowdown due to data
>bottlenecking during transfers.  MacUser also stated that most Macintosh
>computers can use the 9-chip IBM SIMMs without problems; the Mac will
>just ignore the ninth chip.   

Don't forget that the Mac IIfx CANNOT use 256K SIMMS (of any type).

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