Everhart,Glenn
From:	Chris Scheers [asi@airmail.net]
Sent:	Sunday, May 10, 1998 10:12 PM
To:	Roy Omond; Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: VAXstation 4000 VLC memory ?
Roy Omond wrote:
> 
> I'm sure this has come up in the past...
> 
> I have inherited a couple of VAXstation 4000 VLC's with no memory.
> Looking at the last Systems and Options Catalogue where the VLC was
> featured, it looks like the memory type (MS40-AB) is fairly vanilla 80ns
> 
> 72-pin SIMMs.
> 
> The price asked for real second-hand MS40-AB's from some of the usual
> DEC used equipment resellers in the UK is ridiculous.  So ...
> 
> what kind of "PC" (yeah, I know ...) memory could I use in place of the
> real thing ?  I seem to recall there being an issue with e.g. 70 ns
> stuff.


The VS4000-VLC is generic, 72 pin parity memory.  Unfortunately, only
4MB SIMMs may be used, so 24MB is the maximum memory.  We have 70ns
SIMMs in our machine.

Good luck!

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