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From: anderss@uplog.se (Anders Sjolund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: what to do with 256K mem chips
Message-ID: <326@uplog.se>
Date: 3 Nov 88 23:12:01 GMT
References: <860@ncar.ucar.edu> <10330067@eecs.nwu.edu> <323@uplog.se> <13207@oberon.USC.EDU>
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In article <13207@oberon.USC.EDU> rfischer@skat.usc.edu (Roger Fischer) writes:
>The Macintosh Plus and the Mac SE have four slots for RAM simms.  When they
>are put in, they must be installed in sets of two.  Therefore the available
>configurations are 
>
>	4 - 256K simms.                 -----> 1   meg
>	2 - 256K and   2 - 1meg simms   -----> 2.5 megs
>	4 - 1meg simms.                 -----> 4   megs
>
>That is all that the mac logic board is built to accept.  I'm not sure,
>but I think that MacSnap makes a ram expansion kit that allows two simms to
>be plugged into each slot, the problem is that it comes with it's own simms
>so you still would not be able to use your left over simms.

You forgot to mention the configurations where only two simms are installed -

       2 256K simms  -> 512 Kbyte   (ridiculous, isn't it ?)
       2 1meg simms  -> 2 Mbyte

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