Unidentified chip -- Spoiler for HP 1260-0339

tony duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Fri Aug 7 00:02:14 CDT 2015


> 
> And come to think of it, I bet those dummy chips were used for
> training people to hand stuff boards as well.

The Amstrad PCW8256 (word processor) came with 256K of RAM but could be expanded to 
512K essentially by adding another 8 41256 DRAM chips. Some companies in the UK sold the
9-chip kits used to expand PCs (with parity memory) for this, telling you to use the extra chip
to practice with.

However the HP package I mentioned is the only time I've seen one of these dummy chips used
on a production board.

-tony


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