Re: odd cards

["The Meikles" <action1@telusplanet.net>]

Bryan

Thank You! I couldn't think of the term but you nailed it on the head. That
is the exact reason you have to use older Mac Simms.

Sheane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Villados" <news001@nospam_macgeek.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Sent: July 9, 2000 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: odd cards


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