Re: know anything about an OctoRAM GS board?

[st3b1@jetson.uh.edu (Fretz, David)]

In article <33bm6o$s3g@news.service.uci.edu>, eaiu184@rigel.oac.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes...
>In article <33ba6r$rtn@hermes.unt.edu>,
>Phillip "Ty" Young <tyoung@jove.acs.unt.edu> wrote:
>>Getting one of these EMPTY for $10.  Anyone know anything about it, i.e. 
>>special software required, kind of SIMMs it uses, etc. ?  Thanks.
>>TY
> 
>The OctoRAMs will hold either 8 256K SIMMs, which makes 2 megs,
>or 8 1 Meg SIMMs, which makes 8 megs.  I believe they use the
>Mac SIMMs (8 chips per SIMM,) instead of the PC SIMMs (9
>chips per SIMM).

Th octoram will use 9 chip SIMM it just ignores the 9th chip.  I use a set of
60 ns 9 chips with no problems.  Just don't mix and match 256k and 1M SIMMs.


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