>> If you're looking to put 16 meg simms in a PS/1 you are probably
>>out of luck.
>> I'm not positive, but I have a PS/2, and it can only take 2 meg
>>simms... so the PS/1 may be similarly limited.
>> I fried one of the three simm slots on the motherboard of my
>>machine by trying to put a 4 meg simm in it. Made a _very_ expensive
>>toll call to IBM tech support, and found out, these old machines
>>can't take very large RAM.
>> I hope that helps you avoid my mistake. :)
>
>I'm just going by the owner's manual, and by the appearance of the insides
>as described in the manual. It's possible the owner's manual is wrong.
>
>However, the first owner was a professional (designs whole systems for the
>military) and tells me the manual is right about this. In fact, he said it
>out of memory, and I checked, and what he said matched the book. It has
>only 2 megs at present, true. It has room for 2 SIMMS. They have to be
>installed in pairs with the same rating, according to the old owner, but I
>can put in two 8s for a total of 16, or two 16s for a total of 32.
I know the PS/1 can have normal SIMMs a friend bought a used 16 MB of me
that I had bought by another friend and he had gotten it from someone else
so we don't know about parity and such but it did work.
But he only needed one. Perhaps you have 30 pins? (but how would you know
new at PCs and all, perhaps it states something about 30 or 72 pin SIMMs in
the manual?)
>
>No wonder I have always felt confused about IBMs. This is really hard.
Only since you have a problem, otherwise an IBM or an IBM clone isn't that
bad (a real IBM will often give more trouble than a clone, but that's
another matter entirely.)
Well, 5 months till "the Clone Wars" - if they are in the movie at all :)
>
>Patty
//Bernie
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