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- From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Micronics (Gateway) VL-Bus motherboards don't accept regular SIMMs
- Message-ID: <mcdonald.633@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:44:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.121035.45833@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.121035.45833@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> nschaper@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
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- >I think all of the Gateway VL-Bus systems use Micronics motherboards.
- >Anyway, it seems that these motherboards take some strange, non-standard
- >type of RAM.
-
- It's not strange, and is standard. It is, however, different. It is
- a SIMM, just a different kind.
-
- I called up a couple of different "chip vendor" of the cheapie sort,
- that I have done business with before, and they had them. The price was
- indeed a few dollars more expensive than the older ones, but only
- a few dollars per package.
-
- Doug McDonald
-