13 Jan
2002
13 Jan
'02
11:18 p.m.
I wish I had some 16meg simms..... I would have put 256megs in my 386
:-) Yes my 386 had 16 simm slots, and would take more than 32 megs!
I think I may stop back by Goodwill tomorrow again. If I can get them
to agree to a decent price I'll go for it.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Chris wrote:
Can I use my 9 pin parity simms from my old 386?
The parity bits are
just ignored right? If so, then I can drop 32megs into it.
I just scanned apple's TIL, and it looks as though Parity chips are ok on
the IIci. I base this off an article discussing the fact that it needs
FPM memory 80ns or faster (the article indicates that pretty much all 30
pin chips 80ns or faster will be FPM). It lists a few part numbers for
ram upgrades offered by apple... two of them are Parity chip packages. So
if apple is telling you that those are available as upgrades for the
IIci, I have to assume parity memory will be just fine.
And the IIci will handle a max of 128mb (8 - 16mb chips). You must
install RAM in groups of 4 however (and I am fairly sure all ram in a
grouped bank must be the same type, so either all parity, or all non
parity)
-chris
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