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Article #46233Re: Low-Cost Macintosh
From: Steve Ligett
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 16:25
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 16:25
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In article <1478@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> rcstse@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (Stephan Eggermont) writes: >sklein@cdp.UUCP writes: >If you want a low cost mac, you are not going to use any SIMM's. >Slots are more expensive than just soldering them on the PCB >Instead you use 4 bit wide 1M4 ram chips, 4 for a 2 megabyte 68000 machine, >or (I would like that) 8 for a 4 megabyte 68030/40 machine. This might be true if 1meg x 4 chips were inexpensive or plentiful. The Japanese hope that they won't be cheap for quite a while. Right now, 1 meg chips are the ones to use, if low-cost is important. It's cheaper to build a motherboard with only 30 holes in it, plug a SIMM socket into it, and pop a SIMM into that than to put 160 holes in the motherboard, and plug 8 DIPs and 8 caps in. And saves space too. And can be designed to take 4 meg SIMMs later. -- steve.ligett@dartmouth.edu or ...!dartvax!steve.ligett
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu.edu!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!stevel From: stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Low-Cost Macintosh Message-ID: <19414@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 14 Feb 90 16:25:09 GMT References: <13866860@1990Feb1.185328.19467@wam.umd.ed> <141200093@cdp> <1478@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 17