Hi, Randal. I don't know why you are getting an "out of memory" error, but I have a few ideas that may be of use. Even with MultiFinder activated (and a good amount of disk cache!), my Classic's System+Finder doesn't take much more than 600 Kb of RAM. This leaves me with about 3.4 Mb of free memory (I have a memory expansion board loaded with two 1 Mb SIMMs for a total of 4 Mb). With your 2 Mb of RAM and the default settings for disk cache, you should have more than 1 Mb of free RAM after booting, even with the PPP and TCP/IP extensions loaded, I think.
If the Finder is taking such a huge amount of RAM, it's probably because you aren't using MultiFinder. If MultiFinder is de-activated, MacOS is running in monotask mode, and thus the current application (the Finder in this case) takes all the available memory - no other application is going to need it. I don't know if PPP or TCP/IP require you to use MultiFinder, but you could try to enable the MultiFinder using a command from the Special menu (I can't remember the command's name in English - I use the Spanish version of System 6 in my Classic) and see if it helps. About the memory expansion board: the Classic comes with 1 MB of RAM soldered in the motherboard, and a memory expansion slot. There is a memory expansion card that goes into this slot and has an aditional 1 Mb soldered into it - thus increasing the RAM size to 2 Mb. The memory expansion board has also two (initially blank) SIMM sockets that can hold either two 256 Kb or two 1 Mb SIMMs, summing 2.5 Mb and 4 Mb of RAM, respectively. But I bet you already know this :-) . Having said this, it's obvious that you have a "blank" memory expansion board (you have 1 Mb on the motherboard and 1 Mb soldered on the memory board). I think it shouldn't be hard to find a couple of nine-chip 1 Mb SIMMs (for some reason, the Classic doesn't like three-chip SIMMs) and plug them in the memory card so you get a full 4 Mb (yum!). Just don't forget to set correctly the jumper in the memory expansion board to indicate that the sockets are populated. Greetings, Antonio Rodr�guez (Grijan) Randal Du ha escrito: > OK. I finally started trying(seriously, not foolishly) > getting my Mac Classic as an e-mail machine. I loaded > the Classic w/ sys 6.0.7, I'm using PPP 2.0.1, TCP/IP > 2.0.6, and Eudora 1.3.1. I configured all of the > programs, and I restarted the computer. When the > desktop came up, a message saying "PPP:Insufficient > Memory!" popped up. Yes, I know what this means. I > have 2 MB of RAM on the Classic. I went to "About this > Finder" and it says the System file takes up like > 200K/300K. It also says the Finder takes the rest > 1700K! But it says it's only using about 400K of that > 1700. So i went to the finder file to switch the > memory allocated from the "get info" option. WHen I > went there, it says it is only allocated 160K! > > Ok. Here's my question. How can I change the memory > allocations so I could give PPP some memory to work > with? Or am I totally missing the problem??? > > Also, After I restarted, I checked to see if PPP would > work anyway. I looked int the control panel, and the > Open button on the panel was rey(in other words, i > couldn't click it...) is this a result of the > "Insufficient memory"? > > Randal -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
