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From: lad@sdl.UUCP (Lawrence A. Deleski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Another Mac SE/30 question
Message-ID: <1136@bub.sdl.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 15:13:15 GMT
References: <6671@paris.ics.uci.edu>
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From article <6671@paris.ics.uci.edu>, by poleary@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Petey O'Leary):
> I currently use a Mac SE with 1 meg of memory and am in desperate need of
> more memory (the LSC 3.0 debugger doesn't run on my whimpy 1 meg machine).
> I would hustle out and get a 1 meg SIMM but this SE/30 business has me
> worried:  if and when I upgrade my old SE to the new SE/30, will I have
> to throw out my SIMM?  I don't have the tech specs for the SE/30, so I
> can't just look it up.  I assume that the SE/30 will take the same SIMM's
> that the SE does, but you can never be too sure about these things...


The SE/30 does take the same simms that the SE does, with one important
difference.  The SE/30 is a 32 bit machine,  therefore, simms have to be added
four at a time.  Where you could get 2 1 meg simms for the old SE and wind up
with a 2.5 MB machine,  this is not possible with the SE/30.



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