Path: utzoo!attcan!darkover!seachg!jalsop
From: jalsop@seachg.UUCP (John Alsop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: How can I find out how much memory an NCR system has on board?
Message-ID: <187@seachg.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 90 00:05:20 GMT
References: <1478@jimi.cs.unlv.edu>
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Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1478@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> jack@jimi.cs.unlv.edu (Jack Alexander) writes:
>Hello:  I am the system adminstrator for many NCR towers in the Las Vegas
>area.  I have situations arise where I want to be able to find out how much
>memory I have on the computer.  Where can I look to find this?
>
>-- Jack Alexander

A couple of approaches:

	- if you're running on a Tower 32 with Unix 2.01 or higher, the
	  show(1M) command will tell you all about the hardware
	  configuration.  Caution: the man page says to only run it when
	  there is no other system activity.

	- for older releases, boot the system in manual mode and do a
	  QUERY function.  Pick the EXAMINE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION or
	  EXAMINE SYSTEM SIZE option (depending on firmware release), and
	  look for the display of GOOD CLICKS.  You'll see a list of hexa-
	  decimal ranges: each click is 2K of memory.  So if you see up to
	  03FF (=1023 decimal) that means you have 2 MB.

	  Note the click map may be discontinuous depending on the sizes of
	  memory boards on the system.

	- hardware hacker's approach:  open the system and look at the memory
	  boards (turn off the battery before taking them out!)


John Alsop

Sea Change Corporation
1100 Central Parkway W., Suite 38
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5C 4E5
Tel: 416-272-3881 Fax: 416-272-1555
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