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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Another Memory Question?
Keywords: Memory SIMMS MAC II
Message-ID: <74566@felix.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 17:40:21 GMT
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In article <825@savax.UUCP> michali@savax.UUCP (Paul C. Michali) writes:
<Someone had mentioned that memory on the PLUS and SE had to be done in pairs.
 
<Is this true for the Mac II?  Can one have 3MB ( four 256K and two 1M SIMMS)?
 
<We are looking to buy a Mac and can get a 2M SIMM package from National Semi
<for a good price,  but I am concerned abouth whether I must trash two of the
<256K SIMMS to end up with 2.5MB or just insert two 1M SIMMS to get 3MB.
<PCM

With a Mac II you have the option of buying it with 1Mbyte and adding 4
256K chips to bring the total to 2 Mbytes. Or you can buy 4 1Mbyte SIMMs
and bring the total to 5 Mbytes. Beyond that you throw away the original
1 Mbyte and put in 4 more 1 Mbyte SIMMs for a total of 8 Mbytes.

Most people I've talked to won't sell Mac II SIMMs (1Meg) two at a time
because you have to do 4 at a time. Be 
sure the 2Mbyte SIMM package is really for a Mac II, and get two of them.

You can also buy a Mac II with 4 Mbytes (and a 40 Meg disk). I recently 
asked for a quote, and because I already had the hard drive, I just wanted
a 4 or 5 meg Mac II - period. It was more expensive to buy the 1 meg version
and add memory than to buy the 4 meg version with the hard disk.

Shirley Kehr