lab3e@landau5.phys.virginia.edu (Louis A. Bloomfield) (12/12/90)
A number of individuals have asked about 3rd party memory for the RS/6000 machines (e.g. posting on Nov 27, 1990 by Don Preuss: donp@niaid.nih.gov). The actual memory cards are themselves difficult to clone, however SIMM kits (eight SIMM modules) to upgrade these cards to 16 MB or 32 MB are now being sold by: Impediment, Inc. 333 Franklin Street Duxbury, MA 02332 (617) 837-8877 at a price of less than $200 per MB. They are already shipping the kits. I have had a 32 MB kit in my model 320 for about a month and its works beautifully. I purchased my machine with only 8 MB of memory, hoping that some company would sell me SIMMs for a price more in line with the actual cost of the memory chips. I seem to have gotten lucky. The SIMM kits work in the models 320, 520, and 530. Unfortunately, IBM issued the model 540 with special 3.5 volt memory chips, so that these new SIMM kits will not work in the model 540 until they are field changed by IBM. ------------------------------------------------------------- Louis A. Bloomfield LAB3E@VIRGINIA.EDU Assistant Professor Department of Physics University of Virginia