Re: Can Gateway 386 30-pin SIMMs work in IIgs QRAM card?

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buggie@auriga.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) wrote:
>so I inserted the four 9-RAM simms into my QRAM/Pacemark 4 meg
>card and then inserted the card into the Rom 01 IIgs.
>
>It works!  The System 6.0.1 finder recognizes the 4 megs of ram, and also
>the QRAM diagnostics test also PASSED all the ram tests!
>
>Incidentally, I noticed on the 30-pin SIMMS that I removed from the QRAM/
>Pacemark card, there is an empty space for a ninth RAM on the SIMM card.
>
>So, the $5 I paid for the junked Gateway "386" was well worth it!  I got
>an excellent AT-style 230 watt power supply, and 4 megs of RAM usable in
>my IIgs!  Plus plenty of jumpers, standoffs, jackscrews, and a
>mini-speaker.
>
>The upshot of all this is that if you find a junked IBM compatible, there
>is plenty in it that you can use it in your Apple!

Which is why I always recommend the Sirius card, which is available
unpopulated from Alltech and takes 30 pin 1MB SIMMs.  Since parity
does not matter, there are literally 8MB gold mines lying in junked
PCs!  Why would anyone recommend someone buy a $200 Quality Computers
RAM card that maxes out at 4MB when you can support Alltech, one of
the remaining Apple II developers, and still get up to 8MB of RAM
for less that $80?

For those who for some reason hate 8MB and rail against such a
recommendation, such outbursts are still illogical because you could
always steal only _4_ SIMMs from junked PCs and still get memory
much cheaper.  At 13.75MHz, turning DMA off on an Apple HS SCSI
card only adds one second to an eleven second shift-boot in any case.

-Scott G.