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From: regan@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Kenneth Regan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: 4Mb SIMMs (Was: Is OK to mix 120ns with 70ns on IICX?)
Summary: $590+ from TW
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Date: 7 Feb 90 15:08:11 GMT
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In article <660@tci.bell-atl.com> kempf@tci.bell-atl.com (Cory Kempf) writes:
>mitchell@tci.bell-atl.com (Rob Mitchell) writes:
>
>>	Basically, subject says it all.
>
>Has anyone heard anything about when we can get 4MB SIMMS firthe mac
>in quantity?  (for a reasonable price?)
>

I'm putting four 70ns 1Mb x 9 SIMMs in my Mac IIcx, to augment the four
Apple 120ns 1Mb x 9s already there.  Technology Works assured me that the
speed difference wouldn't matter, and that having the parity chip wouldn't
hurt -- the IIcx would just ignore it.  [Why spend more for 70ns?  Maybe
someone will come up with an add-in that will exploit faster RAM, or the
chips will find another useful home someday.  It's not much more.]

Perhaps more interesting, TW told me they now have 80ns 4Mb x 9 SIMMs in
stock, for only $590 each!!.  We're ordering four for the SparcStation1;
again, TW assured me they'll work in either the high-end Macs or the Sun
workstations or etc.  [Again, I'm a RAM neophyte, and even need to ask:
"Once you specify (speed)(chip size) x (8 or 9), a SIMM is a SIMM in any
machine--right??]


Kenneth W. Regan           			Assistant Professor
Computer Science Dept.				(Opinions not < SUNYaB)
SUNY at Buffalo, 226 Bell Hall			Tel.: (716) 636-3189, -3180
Buffalo,  NY  14260				regan@cs.buffalo.edu