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From: nate@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Nate Berggren)
Subject: Re: SIMMS for IIsi
Message-ID: <1991May2.165901.20766@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Northwestern University
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Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 16:59:01 GMT
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In article <00947F3E.B364BA80@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) writes:

>	I have a price list from the UCLA computer store, and they claim 
>that the IIsi is only expandable to 5MB (17MB with system 7).  
>
>	My question about this is, why is the IIsi limited to 5MB?  
>What's different about it - the other machines in the II series can handle 
>8MB with system 6.x...

The IIsi is only configurable to 2, 5, 9, or 17 meg.  This is because 
there is 1meg built onto the motherboard and only four slots for SIMMs.
The above configurations are with 256k, 1meg, 2meg and 4meg SIMMs
respectively. 

nate@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Nate Berggren
ACNS Student Consultant
Northwestern University