[rescue] Searching for cheap memory

George Adkins george at webbastard.org
Thu Aug 8 14:38:10 CDT 2002


On Thursday 08 August 2002 03:33 pm, you wrote:
> >>>>> "Nadine" == vraptor  <vraptor at employees.org> writes:
>
>     Nadine> I'm fairly sure that those are the type of memory used in
>     Nadine> NuBUS Macs like the 7100/7600, so you might check at some
>     Nadine> of the on-line Mac places like Other World Computing.
>
> I don't think so. From my perusing and recall, none of the macs used
> 72pin FPM. Some used 72pin non-parity(7100-8100), some used
> parity-DIMMS. What _did_ use 72pin FPM were Sun IPX's.

IIRC the 7100 that I had a couple of years ago worked just fine with 72 pin 
FPM Parity, as well as FPM non-parity memory.  Not all Fast Page Mode memory 
is parity, and many older macs just ignore it if it is there.

George



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