11 Aug
2008
11 Aug
'08
10:44 p.m.
Jeff Walther wrote:
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 thought of that but wasn't sure if they were compatible or not. I'm
not a hardware guru, just a guy who likes to restore old IBM
5150/5160/clones to working service.
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.
Oh, I have plenty of SIMMs -- if they're compatible, I'll start learning
how to desolder :-)
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