Needed: 4 - 4meg 72pin non-parity SIMMs

From: James L. Rice <jrice_at_texoma.net>
Date: Mon Jan 29 06:34:11 2001

My Turbo Color (ADB model) NeXTstation has 4 72 pinn simm slots filled
with 32mb FPM simms for 128mb total. I think I saw some earlier NeXT
machines that took 8 30pin simms.

Jeff Hellige wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> >
> >> Would anyone by chance have 4 - 4meg 72pin non-parity SIMMs
> >> available? I'd like to finish filling out the RAM in my
> >> NeXTstation. Unfortunately, the 4meg SIMM is the largest that I can
> >> use even though it has 8 SIMM slots.
> >If it uses 72-pin SIMMs, it has only 2 banks (4 slots) and there's no
> >reason you can't use larger SIMMs.
>
> Trust me, it's 8 slots of 72pin SIMMs. The early non-Turbo
> Color slabs had 8 slots while the later Turbo slabs had 4 slots.
> Also, I tried using standard non-parity double sided 8meg SIMMs in
> the machine and it didn't work. The only NeXT I've seen listed as
> supporting more than 32meg is the '040 Cube. Otherwise, as far as I
> know, 8meg 72pin SIMMs will only work in the Turbo's.
>
> Jeff
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