Hi,

> Interesting that you should ask.  I ran into that problem on an IPX,
> and found that nondescript IBM ram worked, as did nondescript Compaq
> 72 pin ram.  The IBM ram was 12 chip from an old RS6000 machine, and
> the Compaq ram was 2 chip, from an old Pentium Proliant desktop.
> It was mostly a plug and try it.  It will either freeze, or come
> up and report some errors, or work fine.
> 
> All my good IPX ram wound up in my Classic, but the IPX ram will usually
> work in the Classic.
> 
> The random ram worked fine, for me, and rescued an otherwise ramless machine.
> 
> Bob

I realised that the SIMMs I was trying were 8M ones which were not supported...
:-(

-- kaz-k