14 Jun
2003
14 Jun
'03
7:18 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
"jamesd" <jdickens(a)ameritech.net>
wrote:
I thought one DIP had an inverted CS, Though I might be wrong. I did the
stacked thing on my atari 400,
Stacked 8K chips to get 16K. But that was in 82 and the atari H/W
manuals are in the garage.
Jim Davis.
I see you have higher standards than IBM, for a
while after the AT was
released they sold ram that was two chips piggy backed so they could get
more
ram on the board.
<snip>
Both the CLCC on substrate and the factory-stacked DIPs were actually
quite reliable. Until ZIPs, SIPPs, and DIMMs were invented, that was
the highest packaging density in common usage for RAM.