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Re: Help - What RAM do I need to upgrade my PC?

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From: Tom Bird
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 00:00
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Harry Broomhall <haeb@pc60.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<354ed9c8.3731000@netbsd.haeb.demon.org>...

>    Are there 8 or 9 chips on each stick?   If 8 then they are
> non-parity, if 9 then parity.  They are 70ns.  BUT - they are Fast
> Page mode units, not EDO.

There are also non parity 72 pin things that have 2 or 4 chips.

My first 8Mb SIMM had 4 chips as has the pile I've since accumulated.

The 4x16Mb I've got for my beast have 8 chips each.

Probably just depends where you bought it.

TB
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From: "Tom Bird" <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Help - What RAM do I need to upgrade my PC?
Date: 1998/04/27
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