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Re: Re: Another Mac SE/30 question - RE: SIMMs SE --> SE/30

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From: Bob Hablutzel
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1989 22:18
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>> I currently use a Mac SE with 1 meg of memory and am in desperate need of
>> more memory (the LSC 3.0 debugger doesn't run on my whimpy 1 meg machine).
>> I would hustle out and get a 1 meg SIMM but this SE/30 business has me
>> worried:  if and when I upgrade my old SE to the new SE/30, will I have
>> to throw out my SIMM?  I don't have the tech specs for the SE/30, so I
>> can't just look it up.  I assume that the SE/30 will take the same SIMM's
>> that the SE does, but you can never be too sure about these things...


>The SE/30 does take the same simms that the SE does, with one important
>difference.  The SE/30 is a 32 bit machine,  therefore, simms have to be added
>four at a time.  Where you could get 2 1 meg simms for the old SE and wind up
>with a 2.5 MB machine,  this is not possible with the SE/30.

Wouldn't the SE/30 require the 120 ns SIMMS, same as the II, and not be able
to use the 150 ns SIMMs that the SE uses?

Bob Hablutzel	Wildwood Software	BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU
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Subject: Re: Re: Another Mac SE/30 question - RE: SIMMs SE --> SE/30
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