10 Nov
2006
10 Nov
'06
5:59 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: Need Docs for XT RAM Board...
I think it was a Compaq 386 that used SRAM for its main memory, expensive
but faster then DRAM for sure.
On 10 Nov 2006 at 19:29, Teo Zenios wrote:
> Didn't some manufacturer sell a machine with SRAM instead of DRAM for a
> short period of time when DRAM and SRAM prices were about the same? It
was
supposed to be
a screamer at the time.
In the PC world, I don't know. But SRAM was fairly popular in the S-
100 world, even with its higher power dissipation. My old MITS
Altair had 2 boards of 4K TI DRAM and it would drop bits if you
looked at it crossways. When I replaced those with some SSM static
RAM boards (91L02s), I was much happier.
Cheers,
Chuck