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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Preliminary comments on South Coast RAM for Color slabs
Message-ID: <1771@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 21 Jun 91 10:08:46 GMT
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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[Not applicable to NeXTstation or base NeXTcube]
If you're planning on ordering third-party memory for NeXTstation
Color, first check what's actually in the machine.  Our machines
came with 1MBx36 (*not* 1MBx32) SIMMs.  We ordered 72-pin SIMMs
from South Coast Electronics.  Someone (at our end) who's been
too-well indoctrinated wrote in "low profile" before the order
went out.  South Coast's low-profile "SC-NEXT 4000/L" SIMMs have
chips on BOTH SIDES--they are a *very* tight fit (i.e. touching)
in the sockets.  Since you don't need low profile memory for
the slabs, I don't advise ordering low profile.  (Note that
NeXT does not use low profile 1MBx36s!)

There doesn't seem any advantage in ordering 1MBx32 SIMMs for
the Color slabs, especially considering John Graves' recent
posting on parity vs. non-parity memory.

P.S. 20MB is *not* enough to make a Color slab happy.

					-=EPS=-