31 Jan
2006
31 Jan
'06
7:19 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: SIMMs and other memory dongles (was: Common items you passed up
Then there is the adapter that I have in my Amiga
3000, it plugged in
where
the ZIP Chips would go, and let me use standard 72-pin
SIMM's (at least I
think they're 72-pin, might be 30-pin). It was cheaper than trying to get
16MB of ZIP Chips.
Of course I really wish I had the Zorro 3 board a coworker bought about
the
same time, it lets him put 128MB in his Amiga 3000
(except as far as I
know,
it's still sitting new in the box).
Zane
I don't know what you would need 128MB of RAM in an Amiga for (unless you
have a PPC upgrade and want to browse the web or something like that).
My A2000 has a GVP 68030/40 that uses those weird 64Pin GVP memory SIMMS (I
have 16MB on that card), they are about as hard to find as IIfx memory (64
pin but not GVP compatible). I have yet to run into GWorld memory used on
some Mac Nubus video cards as a frame buffer cache, they are also 64 pin.
Either very few companies produced 64 pin SIMMs or somebody have a warehouse
full of them and does not know it.