[BozemanLUG] Older PC hardware and older distros . .

[gary hildebrand]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>wrote:

> Gary,
>
>
> What is the exact make and model number?  Is 200MMX the model number... or
> a reference to a 200MHz CPU with MMX?
>

Vectra VL5/200MMX

>
> > I'm looking for 72pin SIMMS, 60ns EDO or FPM, to fill six slots to
> > get the RAM up to or beyond 256 Mb.
>
> I wanted to the make/model number to look it up on crucial.com to see if
> they could say how much RAM it can take.  If it can only take an 8.4GB hard
> drive, I'd be surprised if it can go bigger than 32MB of RAM.  The laptop I
> had back in 1998 was a Toshiba and I had 24MB or RAM and could only go to
> 32MB.  If that one is a year or two newer, it'll probably be better.
>

According to what I've found, it takes (1) 192 Mb with 6x 32 Mb sticks, (2)
512 Mb max.  One reference I found is that it might (???) take 64 MB sticks,
and I'm assuming maybe bigger?

>
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