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From: mkao@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Mike "Butterball" Kao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Does the new parity bit cause SIMM incompatibilities?
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Date: 13 Mar 90 05:05:36 GMT
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I learned from my digital design professor that the newest Macs (beginning
witht he IIci I think) have added a parity bit to each byte, now resulting
in 9-bit bytes. I suppose this means that these Macs use 9-bit SIMM's?

I want to know because I currently own a Mac II with 4 MB and am considering
buying 4 more MB to bring my machine up to the max; however, I am concerned
that, should I decide to upgrade to one of these newer Macs, all my SIMM's
will be useless. Is this true? 
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