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From: bam@sgi.com (Brian McClendon)
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Subject: Re: Does the New Mac IIsi 2/40 comes with 3 megs of RAM?
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.203943.12283@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 20:39:43 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.183702.12411@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>chou@june.cs.washington.edu (Pai Chou) writes:
>
>>I ordered a IIsi 2/40 over a month ago through my school.
>>Today, I was told that Apple has changed the memory
>>configuration of the IIsi 2/40, and that it will come with
>>3 megabytes of RAM instead of 2meg.
>>My machine is being back-ordered.
>
>>Can anybody confirm this?  What did they change?
>>Are they using 512Kbit RAM chips?
>
>  I'm pretty sure they're using 512Kbit RAM chips, for 512KB per SIMM.
>512KB * 4 = 2MB + 1MB onboard = 3MB total.
>
As far as I know, there are no 512Kbit DRAMs in existence.  The 256Kbyte
SIMMs I got in my IIsi a couple of months ago where actually 2 256Kx4
1Mbit DRAM chips.  I would guess that the 512Kbyte SIMMs are actually
a 4 chip version of the 256K ones they use to ship.

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