31 Jan
2006
31 Jan
'06
10:33 a.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Subject to physical clearance and airflow problems of course!
I seem to recall at the point where I changed from a PC motherboard which took
30 pin SIMMS to one which used 72 pin, there was still a healthy used
component market - so I ended up selling the old memory with the old
motherboard and just bought new memory.
cheers
J.
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.
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...