Greetings all--

I am presently working on a colleague's Compaq Presario 7170. It
is a P90, w/8 MB RAM, NO cache, 850 MB hard disk, & CD-ROM.
Having related to me that it was/is very slow to load (and run,
in general), I checked the usual bottlenecks (excessive number of
fonts, many startup apps, presence of sufficient memory, etc.)
and will be recommending to her that her most cost-effective
(apparently) upgrade for performance improvement will be to add
cache (the Compaq manual-prescribed 256K) and RAM.

My question relates to the RAM. The manual calls for 70
nano(?)second RAM SIMMs (fast page). Will any generic SIMMs be
usable in this  Compaq, or is Compaq one of a few companies using
proprietary SIMMs?

Thanks in advance for the input.

Regards,

Paul A. Shippert        Library/Media Specialist
"There is no dark side of the moon really . . .
  matter of fact, it's all dark."  Pink Floyd
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