4 MB Chips

[WILLETT,THOMAS CARTER]

I've been wondering about the 4MB chips for a while, so I called a
distributor (South Coast Electronics) and asked a few questions, the
answers to which may be of general interest:
- You can't put in just 2 4MB chips into a MacIIc* or SE/30. You have
to have each bank of 4 slots totally filled with the same capacity
chip.
- You can't access more than 8MB until System 7.0 comes out, unless you
have Aux (OK, probably everbody already knows that)
- Their price for the 4MB chip is $440 (their 1MB chip is $75)

Has anybody asked The Chip Merchant their price on 4MB Simms? I would've
but I never seem to remember to write down their number when someone
publishes it.

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thomas willett
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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[Martin Carlberg]

In article <94...@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4...@prism.gatech.EDU (WILLETT,THOMAS CARTER) writes:
>I've been wondering about the 4MB chips for a while, so I called a
>distributor (South Coast Electronics) and asked a few questions, the
>answers to which may be of general interest:
> - You can't put in just 2 4MB chips into a MacIIc* or SE/30. You have
> to have each bank of 4 slots totally filled with the same capacity
> chip.
> - You can't access more than 8MB until System 7.0 comes out, unless you
> have Aux (OK, probably everbody already knows that)

I bought 4MB chips from Technology Works. I have now 20MB in my IIci, the
finder can only see 8MB, BUT Technology Works ships a neat ramdisk with the
chips. It is the best ramdisk I have found, it writes to the ramdisk
*and* the harddisk at the same time and reads only from the ramdisk. This makes
it very secure and fast. 12MB ramdisk is enough for me :-). To bad that the
ramdisk don't work with less then 16MB of ram. It is called NanoDisk.

- Martin Carlberg
- Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden