Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cme-durer!paisley
From: paisley@cme-durer.ARPA (Scott Paisley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Memory configuration for Mac II ?
Message-ID: <428@hobbes.cme-durer.ARPA>
Date: 3 May 88 18:08:13 GMT
Organization: National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
Lines: 39
Keywords: memory simms fwingy

About a month ago, my mac II 800K drive was operating very very 
slowly.  It worked but it would take 5 minutes to boot from the
floppy!  This was a funky problem so I took it back to the dealer
and he promply replaced the entire mommy board.  This was fine with
me and fixed the floppy problem.  

NOW the memory question.  On the old board the 8 simm slots were
labeled (Bank B) and (Bank A) from left to right (I think).  The new
board is now labled SIMM1 SIMM2 SIMM3 SIMM4 from left to right, each
label covering 2 simm slots.

Can I use any memory configuration that I want as long as the 2 simm 
slots have identical simms?  (like the 2.5 MB configuration in Plus/SE)

(ie)

     BANK (B)      BANK  (A)
 SIMM1   SIMM2   SIMM3    SIMM4
 -----   -----   -----    -----
256 256 256 256 256 256 1024 1024 = 3.5 MB

rather than

    BANK (B)         BANK  (A)
 SIMM1   SIMM2     SIMM3    SIMM4
 -----   -----     -----    -----
256 256 256 256  1024 1024 1024 1024 = 5.0 MB

I sure think that this will work, but I wanted to ask around to see
if anyone else has done this, or if they have a simular mother board
labeled in this way.  

Thanks for any/all ideas!


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