Trenton State Computer Festival

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Mon May 7 19:06:05 2001

On May 7, 13:52, healyzh_at_aracnet.com wrote:

> It's not a Computer, but I know for a fact that an HP5MP Laserjet will
not
> work with 60ns RAM, it wants 70ns RAM (company I bought the RAM from sent
> 60ns by mistake). It just plain wouldn't recognize the RAM.

That may be because 72-pin SIMMs have 4 sense connections that tell the
host the speed and size. 60ns was rare when the 5 came out, and I expect
HP didn't include recognition of that code (possibly because it could also
mean something much slower -- some codes are re-used, though I can't
remember if the 60ns code is). If you changed one link on the SIMM I
expect it would work fine -- so long as the SIMM was FPM not EDO. Most of
the 60ns SIMMs I've seen are EDO, and that certainly won't work in an HP5M.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Mon May 07 2001 - 19:06:05 BST

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