31 Jan
2006
31 Jan
'06
6:49 p.m.
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 01:33 pm, Jules Richardson wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Subject to physical clearance and airflow problems of course!
Yes. Unlike the "front" and "back" models that were on the page
Richard
pointed to, the store in question had four kinds, two more factors being
"tall" and "short" where the former would stick the SIMMs above the
ones in
the shorter adapter. I guess this was useful for those machines that had
four sockets jammed real close together.
I've no idea how any of these would work for stuff that used those sockets
where they were laying down at an angle.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
This
morning I wondered if it wouldn't be possible to reuse older
smaller density memory modules like SIMMs by creating a carrier card
that held multiple smaller density modules On most machines I've
seen, there's enough physical clearance for something larger than a
SIMM so you could create a carrier that held 4 32 MB SIMMs so that you
could have something that the machine would think was a 128 MB SIMM.
It would look god awful ugly, but would do the job! In fact, I've got
these IBM 300XL units piling up in my basement from the work purge
that could use such a technique to get a few beefy ones cannibalized
from the pile.
I know I've seen such things, in a store that's now long gone, where
they were designed to let you re-use your memory in the process of
upgrading. If my recollection is correct you could take 4 30-pin parts
and stack them up to put into a 72-pin socket...