lrccon@ux.acs.umn.edu (Philip Arny) (09/11/90)
Hello out there. We just upgraded a mess of Mac SEs to 4 Meg each from 1 meg each. This left me with a big box of 256k Simms. Is there any good use for these puppies? Can other macs be upgraded using them? Can any other computers (IBM PCs, IBM PS/2s) use them? Do they make good jewlery? Please let me know. Philip Arny lrccon@ux.acs.umn.edu -- Philip Arny, Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota lrccon@ux.acs.umn.edu or lrc1@nve.hscs.umn.edu or lrc1@umnhsnve.bitnet
c252-aj@cordelia.uucp (Trevor I. Blumenau) (09/11/90)
You can donate your 256k mac simms to low-lifes like me who have 2 Megs and could do with 2.5 Megs for free!!
siegel@endor.uucp (Rich Siegel) (09/12/90)
In article <2214@ux.acs.umn.edu> lrccon@ux.acs.umn.edu (Philip Arny) writes: >Hello out there. We just upgraded a mess of Mac SEs to 4 Meg each from >1 meg each. This left me with a big box of 256k Simms. Is there any >good use for these puppies? Can other macs be upgraded using them? Can >any other computers (IBM PCs, IBM PS/2s) use them? Do they make good >jewlery? Please let me know. I use one as a keychain. I suppose they could also be used to plug leaky windows. Also, some third-party boards can be filled with 256K SIMMs and then installed into a Mac 512K(e) to upgrade it as high as 2 MB. R. Rich Siegel Software Engineer Symantec Languages Group Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel I hate fascist Pnews implementations which limit the .signature to 4 lines.
demarsee@gamera.acs.syr.EDU (Darryl E. Marsee) (09/12/90)
>Also, some third-party boards can be filled with 256K SIMMs >and then installed into a Mac 512K(e) to upgrade it as high as 2 MB. Also, Computer Care in Minneapolis makes a board called a SoftStep III, which allows you to take four 256K low-profile SIMMS and create one 1M SIMM for a Mac II or IIx. They work fine; we've got a couple of Mac II's with 8 of these boards in them, using 32 256K SIMMS as if they were 8 1M SIMMS. Each board costs just a little less than lowest price I've seen for a 1M SIMM, so they're cost effective if you got Mac IIs/IIxs and some 256K low-profile SIMMS lying around.