kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) (01/09/89)
In the Feb MacUser, "The Help Folder" (page 192?), Chris Espinosa answers a question about using leftover SE memory in a Mac II. "Macintosh SEs have always been shipped with 120-nanosecond SIMMs which are appropriate for use in any Macintosh. Only the Macintosh Plus was originally shipped to customers with 150-nanosecond SIMMs which may be used in a Mac Plus or SE but not in a II. "When Apple shipped the SE and II, the Plus was given 120-nanosecond parts as well. So unless you have an older-than-January-1987 Macintosh Plus, you can use any Apple SIMM in any Macintosh" Am I the only one that didn't know that? Shirley Kehr
jg@ukc.ac.uk (J.Grant) (01/11/89)
In article <77733@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes: > "Macintosh SEs have always been shipped with 120-nanosecond SIMMs > which are appropriate for use in any Macintosh. Only the Macintosh > Plus was originally shipped to customers with 150-nanosecond SIMMs > which may be used in a Mac Plus or SE but not in a II. This is, to the say the least untrue, Apple are still shipping *SE*s with 150ns RAM and worse, with 2 low profile & 2 high profile SIMMS, admittedly the low profile was 120ns, but the high profiles ? In case you don't see the problem with this, imagine bending a Prodigy board around the tops of the SIMMS, it's really not on to make a so-called expandable machine and then make it unsuitable for adding cards to. Whilst I'm at it, what's with the new SE chassis, two little mounting brackets on the rhs, just where the second card might go, yes you have to bend these out of the way too ... This is not a flame of you Shirley, it's aimed at Apple. John BTW This is an Irish SE made at the end of November 1988.