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From: newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Timothy Newsham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Using Macintosh SIMMS on a PC Compatible
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Date: 17 Jun 91 06:56:58 GMT
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>I have one megs worth of 256K SIMMS that came out of my Mac

>Can I use these for memory upgrade in my 286-12?

>If these are too slow, can I use them for some RAM disk?

Mac memory will not work on IBM PC's at all, no matter what the speed.
Memory in the macintosh do not utilitize partiy check SIMMS.  Macintosh
memory are of the configuration 1x8 (an example) whereas its equivalent
on the PC would be 1x9 since you have that extra partiy checking "bit".

As far as I know, there would be no applications on any typical IBM-PC
setup (ie video card RAM) set-up that could utilize the Mac RAM.  Might
be wise to just sell it to another Mac owner and use the money to by
some compatible RAM.

I'm no expert on this so I could be very wrong.  Just trying to help :).