Wednesday, January 9, 2008

136mb - could it be a gig though?

The memory arrived for "The General", and it works fine. 2 64mb simms take it to 136mb with the onboard 8mb.

Apparently the 6100 has the same memory controller as the 8100 and thus can use high capacity 72 pin simms.

According to Steven Kan's amazing 6100 upgrade site, http://www.kan.org/6100/ , the 6100 can take up to 520mb. That uses 2 256mb simms.

A Japanese 6100 site, which I can't read, does show a 6100 with Simm Doublers or Simm Stackers or whatever they're called.



http://kei.cside3.com/6100/6100RAM/6100RAM.html

Another part of the page refers to "4 x 64mb" - so I assume that works. But what if you put in 4 256mb chips? A gig of ram in a 6100? That would rock. Of course the fact that the 256mb chips retail for $83 or so, and the fact that I can't seem to find any of these simm doublers, means I'm not going to find out if this works any time soon.

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