7 Aug
2015
7 Aug
'15
6:02 a.m.
And come to think of it, I bet those dummy chips were used for
training people to hand stuff boards as well.
The Amstrad PCW8256 (word processor) came with 256K of RAM but could be expanded to
512K essentially by adding another 8 41256 DRAM chips. Some companies in the UK sold the
9-chip kits used to expand PCs (with parity memory) for this, telling you to use the extra
chip
to practice with.
However the HP package I mentioned is the only time I've seen one of these dummy chips
used
on a production board.
-tony