Re: The LoOpDoctOrs scream HELP!!!

[Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com>]

At 9:49 PM -0700 6/19/97, mgsam@wave.net wrote:
>Thanks for your help, James...
>
>The 'plex is fine with the old memory in it, but we find it HIGHLY curious
>that all four simms were bad.
>
>Might it not be as simple as "any old 30 pinn > then 120 nano second Simm
>will work?  We're trying out a three chip simm next.  This will cost us 
>$16
>more dollars, but will hopefully get our looper memory enriched.
>
>Best,
>the LoOpDoctOrs

Ah, before we go starting a new echoplex rumor and giving me the
opportunity to explain repeatedly some other bit of technical minutiae to
strangers for several more years of my life, allow me to step in.....

In my experience, the echoplex's "simm tolerance" is actually amazingly
good. Much better than most computers that I have used. That is why I
suspect your simms. My experience has also taught me that simms may all
look very similar, but their quality and performance can be all over the
place....

And it may not be that all of them are bad. If they are all installed, only
one has to be bad to screw things up. That's why you should try swapping in
two at a time to try to isolate that.

good luck,

kim

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