Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!shamash!pwp From: pwp@shamash.cdc.com ( HOUFAC) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Computer Care SoftStep and Rescue Summary: SoftStep works fine, good tech support too. Message-ID: <14125@shamash.cdc.com> Date: 28 Sep 89 15:58:50 GMT References: <919@dutrun.UUCP> Reply-To: pwp@shamash.UUCP (Pete Poorman) Organization: Control Data Corp., Houston, Texas Lines: 32 In article <919@dutrun.UUCP> johan@dutnak2.UUCP (Johan de Haas) writes: >According to a leaflet of Computer Care Inc., their SoftStep >modules allow you to build 1M SIMMs from leftover 256k SIMMs. >If you buy four, they go for $50 a piece. It is more or less indicated >that the resulting SIMM only fits in MacII's. > >They also have a product called "Rescue" ($330), that adds a >SCSI port and six! SIMM slots to a Mac 512KE. > >Does anyone out there have experience with these products? I can't speak about "Rescue", but I do have an SE here with a set of SoftStep adapters installed. The version I have allows you to construct 1/2 Meg SIMMs from the 256K'ers, giving you 2 Megabytes in an SE. Installation went fairly smoothly. I got a little concerned because the bottom of the chip leads from the top 256K SIMM were touching the tops of the chips on the bottom one, so I called their 800 number. They were very polite, knowledgeable and helpful. (F.Y.I. -- on some models of SE the leads do touch the chips, and it isn't a problem.) It works fine. I'm suprised, however, that anyone is still considering using these. At $50 each, they're hardly cheaper than buying real one Meg SIMMs. Given the potential for future incompatiblity and the greater number of connections (points of possible failure) I'd probably spend the extra $$. (At the time I did it, one Meg SIMMs were both hard to get and extremely expensive.) --Pete Poorman pwp@shamash.cdc.com