(OT) Sgi Indy

From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Wed Jul 18 12:24:34 2001

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> What's special about the RAM for a Sparcstation 5 ?

They're 5 volt, buffered, parity DIMMs. The only popular system that used
5 volt buffered DIMMs were the old PowerMacs, which don't use parity.

Even beyond that, there's something else about them. I tried using
SPARCstation 5 DIMMs in my Apple Network Server (also wanting 5 volt
buffered parity DIMMs) and the ANS completely refused to see them. That
was disappointing since SS5 RAM is infinitely more abundant, but oh well.
I haven't tried the reverse test yet (whether ANS RAM will work in the
SS5).

ok
r.
Received on Wed Jul 18 2001 - 12:24:34 BST