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Post #15 by johnklos
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateWed, 25 Nov 2009 - 17:52
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/630-solder-pads.19068/
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So they used the exact same solder pads, but turned it into a RAM SIMM slot instead?
The pinouts are very likely not the same, but they're also very likely not tremendously dissimilar. They're definitely not 16 bit - not sure what you were referring to, Trash80toHP_Mini, but if you're talking about address lines, the ROM slot would at very minimum support up to 4 megs, which would require 20 address pins (the ROMs are 32 bits wide, so 2^20 would give 1 million 32 bit words, or 4 megs).

Hmm, interesting. They do some strange things that Apple, much like my MacBook which won't downclock DDR2-800 RAM to DDR2-667 (even though just about any PC will downdlock faster RAM)...all I can say is that I'm not surprised.
That actually is an issue with the memory. I sell Macs as an Apple value added reseller, and I know that most 800 MHz DDR2 memory will run just fine in MacBooks, MacBook Pros, iMacs, and Mac minis, but CERTAIN 800 MHz won't, and it has nothing to do with what kind of Mac it is. I have two 2 gig DIMMs which are waiting for a machine because they (the memory) are 800 MHz only.

As for hacking in further RAM SIMM slots...hmm, that could be a possibility...but for now I'm quite happy leaving the LC630 DOS board in there with its two slots, both filled with 32MB SIMMs, giving me a grand total of 68MB :O
The problem with adding more slots is that you need to generate chip select lines based on the address space being accessed. It's possible that the massively integrated chips on the Quadra 630 type machines could support more than 256 megs, but if nobody has documentation about them and their pinout, it might be difficult or impossible to ever do this.

Just FYI, you have a two SIMM slot motherboard, so you can have two 128 meg SIMMs plus the four on the motherboard, or 260 megs.

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