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  • Let's take a closer look at all of that fancy circuitry we just pulled out. We'll start with the memory board, called an MC3.

  • Memory is available in 16MB (pink stripe) and 64MB (purple/green stripe) simms. The simms are removed just like some old-fashioned PC memory from the early 90s: pull straight up on the white handle, and pray that nothing snaps!

  • Board Layout:

  • Everest powerchannel bus ASICs

  • Memory slots

  • 48V to 5V DC-DC power converter

  • MC3 with 256MB memory (16x 16MB)

  • MC3 with 2GB memory (32x 64MB)

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