Subject: Re: simms for iicx
To: John Valdes <valdes@macavity.uchicago.edu>
From: Dave Schmitt <dschmi1@umbc.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/22/1999 14:47:18
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, John Valdes wrote:

> Ulrich Hausmann writes:
> > 
> > > to summ it up: what do i have to look for when buying ram for an old mac
> > > iicx?
> > 
> > any 30 pin simm faster than 120 ns will work (most you can buy now will
> > be 80ns or faster). Then IIcx is upgradable up to 128 MB ( = 8 x 16 MB)
> 
> Are you sure the IIcx can use 16MB SIMMs?  I was under the impression
> that 4MB SIMMs where the largest it could use. 

Nope. According to the Mac Catalog
<URL:http://mouse.macuser.zd.com/mac+catalog.fm$RETRIEVE?field=serial&value=21&html=html_memory>
It can handle 256k, 1m, 4m, and 16m simms giving the aforementioned 128mb
maximum.

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Dave Schmitt <dschmi1@umbc.edu>