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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: IBM Simms in an SE???
Keywords: 1MB Simms, IBM, SE
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Date: 5 May 89 15:59:18 GMT
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In article <8025@thorin.cs.unc.edu> markham@tsc.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Markham) writes:
>I have a friend with 8MB of 1MB simms for his IBM and is willing to sell
>them to me for a very generous discount.  He is going to be bringing me them
>in the next couple of days, but what I wanted to know was wether or not I
>would be able to use them in my SE.  If anyone out there can answer this I

Just be sure they were never installed in a PC or you'll have problems with
your disk names changing to A> ... :)

Seriously, I've installed "PC" SIMMs (9 chips) in my Mac with no problems.
Apparantly, the 9th chip is ignored.  Just be sure they're fast enough
(150ns for a Plus,SE; 120ns for a II,SE/30).

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
hollander@ti.com

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.