18 Jul
2001
18 Jul
'01
2:06 a.m.
On Jul 17, 20:47, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Um, I hope you got RAM with those systems. If not
unless they're 5/110's
or
5/170's you're probably better off sticking
them on eBay and putting the
money towards a Sparc 10 or 20. Simply put Sparc 5 RAM costs and arm and
a
leg unless you get lucky! Only RAM I've found
that's worse is
AlphaStation 500/333 RAM (I've got both a Sparc 5/70, and a AS500/333).
What's special about the RAM for a Sparcstation 5 ?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
18 Jul
18 Jul
12:24 p.m.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:
What's special about the RAM for a Sparcstation 5
?
They're 5 volt, buffered, parity DIMMs. The only popular system that used
5 volt buffered DIMMs were the old PowerMacs, which don't use parity.
Even beyond that, there's something else about them. I tried using
SPARCstation 5 DIMMs in my Apple Network Server (also wanting 5 volt
buffered parity DIMMs) and the ANS completely refused to see them. That
was disappointing since SS5 RAM is infinitely more abundant, but oh well.
I haven't tried the reverse test yet (whether ANS RAM will work in the
SS5).
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