Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!agate!ucbvax!BBN.COM!levin From: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Upgrade Memory on SE/030 Message-ID: <8909282054.AA02720@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 28 Sep 89 20:26:27 GMT References: <12679@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Joel B LevinOrganization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 19 In article <12679@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) writes: |I am going to upgrade the memory on my 1 Meg SE/30. But I've heard |different stories from different people. Some friends told me that I |can buy 4 1Meg chips and put them in to make a 5 Meg machine. Just a |minute ago, I called an apple dealer here in town. What they said is |that I have to take the 4 256k chips out first and then add 4 1 Meg |chips in, so it ends up with a 4 Meg machine. It is obviously someone |is wrong here. Could anyone out there tell me what is the truth? Your friends are right about your SE/30. If you have 4 256K SIMMs you can keep them and add 4 1Meg SIMMs (I'm not sure, you may have to shuffle them around). What dealer said is true for SEs (NOT /30!) and Pluses. They only have 4 SIMMs so if you want to put 4 1Megs in you have to remove the 4 256Ks. /JBL =