Re: Info needed on 16MByte SIMMs for PC

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From: Ted Wright
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:03

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In article <BuDJsw.8t1@unx.sas.com> sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston) writes:
>From: sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston)
>Subject: Info needed on 16MByte SIMMs for PC
>Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:10:07 GMT

>I'm considering the purchase of a 486DX2 66MHz PC.  The seller (Gateway 2000)
>advertises that these systems are capable of being configured with a 
>maximum of 64MBytes of main DRAM memory.  Investigation has shown that
>their motherboards have four SIMM slots.  Currently, Gateway does not offer
>the 16MByte SIMMs.  In fact, their sales rep sez that they only have the
>4MByte SIMMs so if I *did* purchase from them, I could currently only
>get a maximum of 16MBytes (four slots X 4MByte SIMM) total configured
>at this time.
>
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My Gateway 486/33E is advertised as accepting up to 64Meg of DRAM, but
it has 8 SIMM sockets. Perhaps the Gateway saleperson is confused.

Note that my computer came with 8 Megs in 4 SIMMs, these turned out to be
512K by 36 bit SIMM modules, not the 2Meg by 9 modules that I expected.
Ted Wright (wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov)

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