Re: odd cards

[Bryan Villados <news001@nospam_macgeek.org>]

In article <8kan2v$b17$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, <bobryan9@my-deja.com> wrote:

> In article <SXT95.29509$FQ.2746896@news0.telusplanet.net>,
>   "The Meikles" <action1@telusplanet.net> wrote:
> > tryed to expand the card using PC simms, but even though the Octoram
> is
> > suppossed to work with these I ended up using simms out of a Mac.
> >
> 
> Simms=simms=simms=simms.  The simms from the PC were either faulty, of
> the wrong TYPE, or of the wrong speed.

It could also be parity versus non-parity. The OctoRAM card could very
well not like parity SIMMs, which PC's traditionally use. The
Macintosh, such as the Macintosh Plus and the SE, uses non-parity
SIMMs. And you can't use parity SIMMs in the earlier Macintosh
computers.

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Bryan Villados
Curator, Apple Museum-for-a-Day