31 Jan
2006
31 Jan
'06
5:59 p.m.
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 12:38 pm, Richard wrote:
In article
<a0620070ec0054262a527(a)[192.168.1.199]>9]>,
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> writes:
I know I've seen such things, in a store that's now long gone, where they
were designed to let you re-use your memory in the process of upgrading. If
my recollection is correct you could take 4 30-pin parts and stack them up to
put into a 72-pin socket...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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M Dakin
I still have the 4 4M 30-pin SIMM's that I
spent $600 on while in the
Navy.
If you want to talk about SIMM's that are rare as hens teeth, how
about the 128M 72-pin SIMM's? I managed to get ahold of either 2 or
4 of them for my one AlphaStation 200 4/233.
This morning I wondered if it wouldn't be possible to reuse older
smaller density memory modules like SIMMs by creating a carrier card
that held multiple smaller density modules On most machines I've
seen, there's enough physical clearance for something larger than a
SIMM so you could create a carrier that held 4 32 MB SIMMs so that you
could have something that the machine would think was a 128 MB SIMM.
It would look god awful ugly, but would do the job! In fact, I've got
these IBM 300XL units piling up in my basement from the work purge
that could use such a technique to get a few beefy ones cannibalized
from the pile.