Brenton, at 23:44 on May 04 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BV> Nope. Not hard at all.
BG> Is your middle name Rod, or what?

BV> Nope. Remember me...I may be dumb, but I ain't stupid.
BV> Why do you think I've been ignoring Pauls upgrade :)

Same reason I have, presumably.  :)

BV> How about PCI + VLB + 4 x 30-pin SIMM's + 2 x 72-pin SIMM's
BG> Sure, there are always these bastard motherboards about, but would
BG> you be using one of them?  These sound ..[chomp]..

BV> Yep. I've used a couple when I needed to and had no problems.
BV> Mind you, I checked out half a dozen before finding one that
BV> actually worked properly.

Exactly.  We only tried one (reputable) brand, and it was shit.

BV> You just gotta know where to look. Personally, I wouldn't bother tho.
BG> Neither would I.  We had big problems at CHH with those boards which
BG> took both 30-pin and 72-pin SIMMs, although that may have actually
BG> been brand-related.

BV> "brand-related" ??? Memory or Main-Board ?

The motherboard itself.  They were Chiconys, and didn't like a mixture of
30/72 RAM, even though they were purportedly meant to take it.

BV> I used them before I could easily source the SIMM converters.
BV> Now that they are easily obtained, I wouldn't bother.

We were sent some evaluation simverters, but the ones we got didn't work
real well either.  Might have been earlier models, although there ain't
much on them to fuck-up, just a few ceramic caps.  With RAM so cheap now,
who'd bother?

Regards, Bill

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