27 Mar
2007
27 Mar
'07
3:52 p.m.
Adrian Graham wrote:
I have an AS500/500 on the bench and a handful of 5V FPM DIMMs from a
PM8500 in the drawer. I'll pop the top off the Alpha later and compare.
If they're compatible, that'd be *way* too easy.
I'm more interested in knowing if the DIMM's from a PowerMac 8500/180 will
work in an AlphaStation 500/333! If they do I, I'm not sure what my
reaction will be... I suspect it will be a mixture of seriously ticked off,
and a bit happy. Though I can't remember how many DIMM's are in my 8500,
the 128MB I added might be a pair of 64Mb DIMM's. Even 1 128Mb kit, or 1
256Mb kit would make the system usable (right now it has 1 64Mb kit and 1
32Mb kit). The only thing is, as I have a PWS 433au, and a spare
XP1000/500, it wouldn't make any real sense to spend money to get it up and
running.
I wonder how much RAM is in my Sparc 5....
BTW, I did some Googling. It looks like this might work, *IF* you have
parity RAM in the donor Mac, but apparently that's pretty rare. It looks
like a Sparc 5 might make a better donor.
Zane
On 26/3/07 22:01, "Jochen Kunz"
<jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
Hmmm.
IIRC some PowerMacs used that type of memory too, as well as the
Sun SPARCstation 4/5. In contrast: 3.3 V EDO DIMMs are quite common.
I checked the compaq PROSIC CD yesterday and I'm sure it didn't say anything
odd about the AS500 memory apart from the rules on bank filling; if I get
the chance today I'll make sure.