Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!oliveb!sun!concertina!fiddler From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 256K DRAMS Message-ID: <55527@sun.uucp> Date: 6 Jun 88 19:19:37 GMT References: <3051@crash.cts.com> <9528@e.ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 25 In article <9528@e.ms.uky.edu>, david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes: > > er.. Apple ]['s and vt100's have no need for extra memory. especially > the vt100. I don't know about the vt100, either, but an Apple//gs with only 256K is pretty useless. 1Meg is usable, more is better. Even a //e can benefit from more memory, if only to use it as RAMdisk or (with AppleWorks) as a large desktop area. Both machines are pitiful with only standard memory. > I don't know about ST's but I suspect that they use 1/4 meg > chips. Mac's aren't self-upgradable to my knowledge but again they > probably use 1/4 meg chips. Macs from the Mac Plus on use SIMMS for memory. They are upgradeable by the user (although Apple says you gotta take it to a dealer. 1Meg SIMMs are in just as great demand over there as they are anywhere else. > Mac II's use > SIMM's which I understand can come in 1 meg or 1/4 meg models. Yes, but nobody seems to want to use 256K parts unless they just can't get the bigger stuff. (In lower-end Macs it's even worse, since they are marginal in regard to heat, and the 1Meg parts produce less of it.) seh