Re: Dimms in a 170

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I've got a interesting reply:  WHy not just go down to your local
Compusa and buy a few meg of 168 dimms and plug them in!?  Uh, I'ld
suggest you backup your entire system before, AND if anything goes wrong,
put the OLD memory back in BEFORE calling support...:)

DOn in DC...

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, David Shea wrote:

> This may be a dumb question, but I have to ask it...
> 
> So I added 256MB to my 170 (a pair of 128's) to the tune of $2500.00.  Boy,
> they sure _look_ like 168 pin Dimms, but I didn't put them side by side
> with, say, some PC100 DIMMS.  CISC memory... at least that LOOKED
> different...
> 
> I assume that there really is some reason that these things cost ten times
> the PC memory?
> 
> Any thoughts?  Even 'third party' memory is way up there in price.
> 
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