🚀 go-pugleaf

Rajesh K. Singh wrote:
> 
> I posted a question regarding mixing 30 pin and 72 pin SIMMs on the same
> mother board. THANKS a lot to all of you for clarifying the issue to me.
> Below is the summary of responses.
> 
> 1. It is NOT UNUSUAL for motherboards of that era to have only 2 72 pin
> slots and to have a 4 30-pin bank.
> 
> 2. READ the fine manual. Unfortunately, for me, the system did not come
[Snip...]

> 
> 1. Newer 16MB SIMMs are rated 60ns, my two existing 4MB SIMMs are 70ns.
> Would they work together? Midwest Micro(SALES!) says yes, but they are
> sales. Midwest Micro's tech support is researching the issue.  I want to
> hear your opinions, URL references, etc.
> 
> 2. The VESA board in my computer supports only 540 MB. Should I put a
> promise card to have extra capacity (up to 1.6GB) or just put up with 540
> MB only D: drive. C:, the existing drive, is about 480.  It is for home
> use, and it may be 2-3 years before 540 gets full.  By then, it may not do
> much good to have 1.6 GB drive, on a 486 machine, if software is being
> written for 986 ;-)
I highly recommend this approach. The Promise card has worked well for
me.

> 
> 3. HOWEVER, my spouse, a CS student, would like to install Win 95!  Is 540
> MB too little for Win 95?  (I was horrified to see that a single compiler
> took more than 100 MB space!) Would appreciate your comments.
While I would say that a 540MB drive is adequate for W95, I think that
any serious student of CS will find many interesting programs to play
with that will far exceed the 540 MB capacity. You could, of course,
live with a pair of 540MB drives if your EIDE supports it. But the low
price and high reliability of the Promise card make that a much better
option, especially since it will relieve you of that limitation for 
good!

(BTW, I have no affiliation with Promise, other than being a satisfied
 customer)

HTH,

Al

> --raj (raj@goliath.stanford.edu)
> 
> --
> --
> Rajesh Kumar Singh                   E-mail: raj@goliath.stanford.edu
> Gauls!  We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that the sky may fall
> on our heads tomorrow.  But as we all know, tomorrow never comes!!

-- 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
In Real Life: Al Naseef
EMail: anaseef@telesciences.com anacon1@aol.com(preferred)
Phone: 609 866 1000 ext 305
                             go  E A G L E S   !
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-