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What type of RAM does the card support?

April 26, 2017card RAM support type

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What type of RAM does the card support?

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• The Nubus card that came in the PowerMac 6100 can carry either no memory at all (using a reserved portion of the RAM from the Mac motherboard with remarkable slowdowns) or it can carry one 72-pin PS/2 SIMM. If you have a FPM (fast page mode) SIMM, you should be on the safe side. The PowerMac 6100 works as well with EDO (enhanced data out) SIMMs (on the Mac motherboard), simply ignoring the EDO mode and using the EDOs in fast page mode only. This might be applicable to the DOS card as well (though I have not tested it). The maximum supported size of the SIMM is 32 MB, as there were no 64MB SIMMs at the time when the DOS card was supported by Apple. In the meantime, 64MB SIMMs evolved and I have heard that they do work as well. To get things short again: Use one 72 pin, FPM SIMM of max. 32MB size and things should be fine. • The PCI cards have up to 16MB soldered on the board of the PC Compatibility card (depending on the model you have) and all have one slot free. This one slot can be