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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SIMM removal tool
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Date: 8 Jan 90 15:18:05 GMT
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I've opened my SE twice, each time to replace two of the 256K SIMMs
with 1M SIMMs.  (The first time I had to figure out how.)

I used my two thumbnails as gently as possible to spread the tabs just
enough to lift the SIMMs forward.  When reinserting the new SIMMs, I
placed my thumbnails in the same place and slid the SIMMs down between
them, so that the pressure from them pushed my thumbnails enough to
open the tabs and let the SIMMs slide in.  (I assume this makes some
sense to anyone who has replaced SIMMs.)  Was I inviting disaster this
way, using no particular tool?

(Also, I did not remove the resistor (old motherboard :-( ) for 256K-only, 
rather I just clipped one end and left it hanging.  Was this a bad idea?)

	/JBL
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