Did you guys see this? 24 C1101A gold RAM chips = $418

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

> 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

> 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 > > > > >