Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Installing RAM Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 22:10:06 GMT References: <1991Mar5.170150.214@hulaw1.harvard.edu> Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: roth2@hulaw1.harvard.edu's message of 5 Mar 91 22:01:50 GMT In article <1991Mar5.170150.214@hulaw1.harvard.edu> roth2@hulaw1.harvard.edu writes: > > When installing 4MB simms in the NeXT station, if I'm only installing > four does it matter where thay go and if so should I put them in the > bank next to the hard drive or the one next to the power supply. Aloso, > do I need anykind of special tool to do it? I think all I need to open the > slab is a phillips head screwdriver. > I just did it (the hard way): the 4 rows go next to the power supply; install four of the 1 MB simms in the other 4 slots (or don't pull them) for a total of 20 MB, which works fine. A Philips screwdriver pulls the cover of the station, but pulling out the old simms is quite an art: one should get a special tool for them, since you need to hook it into the two holes AND push on the snaps which hold the simms in place. The technician at the Campus Bookstore, and myself improvised a device, using a heavy paperclip and a tiny screwdriver (to push back the snaps), and we finally managed to do it by trial and error. I would advise GETTING THE RIGHT Simm-puller before attmepting to do this single-handedle ( or even at four hands ): is is too easy to damage the simms. Good luck! Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Prof.) Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717;(714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET