SIMMS and other memory dongles

I'm not sure. I thought of an unconventional use for one the other day. A friend had five 16M 30-pin SIMMs and knew that of four of them, one was bad, but didn't know which one. It occurred to me that putting them a 30-to-72 adapter could end up getting them into a machine with more thorough memory-test capabilities, and which byte lane errors appeared in would tell which of the four was at fault. (In principle, you could do as much with a machine that took 30-pin RAM directly. But if the memory-test capabilities you have on such machines aren't up to what you have on a 72-pin machine....) Yes, it's admittedly a rather recondite use. :-) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B