very cheap old memory

The vast majority of untested items I have purchased from local recyclers worked just fine. People trash or recycle older items because they are no longer needed, but newer items tend to be broken. At one point I had a large bag of 4MB 30 pin SIMMs and figured that would last me forever, I ran out. I do have the NP stuff that work with 68k Macs but not a normal 386/486. -----Original Message----- From: Jules Richardson Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 6:05 PM To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: very cheap old memory On 10/24/2013 02:59 PM, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus wrote: It'd be interesting to know if they do any exhaustive testing of each one ("refurbished" presumably implies that they've at least plugged it into a machine). I currently pay around 30 cents per SIMM from a local recycler, on an "untested, but if it doesn't work you can bring it back for a full refund"* basis - but of course with it being deep farming country the pickings are pretty much limited to non-exotic 30 pin (P/NP) and 72 pin (NP) SIMMs. * around 90% working so far, though; I suppose many of them are pulls from old equipment that became obsolete, rather than non-functional. cheers Jules