Where to find memory ICs?

Message: 3 Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:28:19 -0500 From: Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> Subject: Re: Where to find memory ICs? To: General at mail.mobygames.com, "Discussion at mail.mobygames.com":On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <489B7703.7050009 at oldskool.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Glen Slick wrote: I want to use these to populate an Above Board from 2MB to 8MB, and that would require 6*9*1.89 = $102.06 for just 6MB of RAM. Does anyone know of a cheaper way to get DRAM? $100 just so I can add 6MB of RAM to a card doesn't seem right... I came to this discussion late, so apologies if I missed the point. However, in answer to your last question, I have found desoldering memory chips from old SIMMs to be a workable method. I wanted a bunch of 16M X 4 FPM DRAM and the cheapest way to get it was off of 128 MB 72 pin SIMMs which were selling for about $10 each when carefully shopped for on Ebay. Each SIMM holds 16 chips so the price was well under $1 per chip. Plus there were a handful on 16M X 1 chips on boards as well for parity. Anyway, your target memory chips might be cheaply available on old 30 pin or 72 pin SIMMs. The biggest obstacle would be a requirement for DIPs. Most SIMMs have SOJ chips on board, rather than DIPs. Jeff Walther