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From: bklaas@cmdfs2.intel.com (Brian Klaas~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac SE SIMM question
Message-ID: <142@cmdfs2.intel.com>
Date: 11 Aug 89 00:20:31 GMT
References: <1570010@hp-ptp.HP.COM> <2874@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: bklaas@cmdfs2.intel.com (Brian Klaas~)
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler Microcomputer Division, Chandler AZ
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In article <2874@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
>In article <1570010@hp-ptp.HP.COM> steve@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve_Witten) writes:

>SIMMs don't work unless installed in even numbers, if I understand things
>correctly.  One 1 meg SIMM would not work alone.  The Mac SE (or any Mac
>that ships with just 1 meg RAM) has four 256K SIMMs.
>
>Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong ...

This is true of the SE, but not of the II family.  The mac II has
eight SIMM slots, two banks of four.  Each bank must either be empty,
or full of identical sized SIMMS.