28 Jan
2004
28 Jan
'04
5:41 a.m.
Must be my writing but what I never said it was the gold that made it seem
faster. " it had
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2781001588&category=1247
>> gold ram in it and I subsequently bought four
megs of the same ram",
but I guess people missed the point, if there was one.
I'll make future
posts short and more to the point. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: Did you guys see this? 24 C1101A gold RAM chips = $418
I'm sure that the reason that his computer ran
faster was because of
the
added RAM (7Mb vs 4 Mb) and not because of the gold on
the ICs.
Joe
At 05:14 PM 1/27/04 -0800, Tom wrote:
>I'm sorry, but just because a lot of people believe a thing doesn't mean
>it's true. (Unless you mean you can get the other believer(s) to pay
>more :-)
>
>The 1101's with gold tops are another thing entirely, (possibly)
>extremely old, hence 'interesting'. Gold doesn't oxidize quickly, and is
>a better conductor, and will likely improve reliability of connectors
>under adverse conditions (like humidity, insufficient pressure, etc) but
>it makes nothing 'go faster'. Tin/lead or other platings work fine as
>long as you keep the physical environment in the computer OK.
>
>
>On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 15:21, Brian Mahoney wrote:
>> I remember when I bought my first 'real' computer, an IBM 486SX-33, it
had
>> gold ram in it and I subsequently bought four
megs of the same ram for
>> something like $100.00. Somehow I had the computer working with 7 megs
of
>> ram and it seemed much faster than the four I
originally got it with.
>> Anyway, there was a discussion about why only gold ram (of course I
mean
ram
>> that uses gold to coat the pins that fit in the slots) should be used
in
>> certain types of computers as opposed to the
normal ram, which was lead
or
>> something like that. I did a search then and
this was long before
Google
and
>> came up with the concept that gold coated ram would 'heal' itself after
the
>> small teeth on the connectors grabbed it
while the more normal ram let
>> oxidants in which would, in time, ruin the chip. Now I am wondering if
the
>> gold ram connectors had teeth and the regular
ram connectors didn't.
>> To make a short story long, I sold the chips for exactly the same price
I
>> paid for them a year or so later to a place
that bought ram for resale.
I
>> assume the guy wanted them for printers or
something. He was astonished
to
>> see the gold connectors and after paying me
the 100 bucks asked me if I
had
>> any more! At that time ram was far less than
what I had paid for the
two
>> chips and I guess the premium was for the
gold.
>> I bet everyone will be scrambling around looking for gold ram over the
next
> few days.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:14 PM
> Subject: Did you guys see this? 24 C1101A gold RAM chips = $418
>
>
> >
>
>> >
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>> >
>> > To hell collecting computers! We should rip them apart for the
chips!
>
> </flamebait>
>
> Joe
>