Mac II question

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Oct 20 08:37:48 2000

> At 05:23 PM 10/19/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >> There is also one 72 pin SIMM socket in the mainboard next to the
> >> cache slot (which is where the accelerator goes). I
> wonder what it is
> >> for...
> >
> >It was meant to be used for ROM upgrades, but Apple never issued any.
> >
> >-dq
>
> Oh, so that was it. Thanks for the info!
>
> One thing that I am wondering is how you expanded the memory beyond
> 32 MB. Did Apple sell >4MB 30pin SIMMS? If there are any, they must
> be incredibly rare... I've never even _heard_ of them.

The Mac IIci was designed to use either parity or non-parity simms...
the need for parity simms was for A/UX, Apple's version of Unix.

So any set of 4 16MB 30-pin SIMMs from a PC will work just fine.

There may be a jumper on the MB for this- can't recall.

regards,
-dq
Received on Fri Oct 20 2000 - 08:37:48 BST