"Vintage Macs" <[email protected]> writes: >The accelerator was the Applied Engineering TransWarp '030; it had >its own four SIMMS sockets, 30 pin, nothing special about them, and >yes they were 4 x 4. The motherboard SIMMS were used for video RAM, >by the way, instrux said to put 256 K SIMMS in those slots but I left >a pair of 1 MB SIMMS in the first two banks and it worked fine. > >I had access to 16 MB of RAM but always divided up into discrete 4 MB >chunks; that is, I could not allocate 5 MB to an app and launch it, >it would not work. But I could (and did) cram the System Folder with >INITs and CDevs w/o worry about RAM, and launch several apps at one >time, 1.5 MB here 2 MB there, and of course I always ran in >MultiFinder once I had this. > >And yes, it worked even under System 6, which correctly displayed >that I had all that RAM available when I went to "About the Finder".
Ah, ok that makes sense. I thought we were talking about just adding ram to the stock motherboard because the other person was talking about a simm adaptor or stacker. Kevin -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
