26 Jan
1999
26 Jan
'99
1:43 p.m.
<> You know, those 30-pin SIMMs will be valuable eventually! You should sav
<> every one you find.
<
<I'm sure they're valuable now to people who have old 286 or 386
<motherboards that use old 30-pin SIMMs.
What about all the 486 boards (I have a few!) that use 30pin simms.
I also have a older Pentium board that take a mix of 30 pin and 72pin simms!
I tried recently to get 4mx9 30 pin parts and 16mb(4 of them) would be
about $65... 16mb 72pin parts are going for $19 around here new! Yet
I can find the 1mx9 parts for $3 used/tested. I happen to have a very
tiny 486slc/33 board that only can take 4simms (and must have 4!) so I
either have 4mb or 16mb as choices. I need a minimum of 8mb so I can
run useful stuff and a have just a few (dozen) 1mb parts!
such is industry.
Allison
27 Jan
27 Jan
2:36 a.m.
<> You know, those 30-pin SIMMs will be valuable
eventually! You should sav
<> every one you find.
<I'm sure they're valuable now to people who have old 286 or 386
<motherboards that use old 30-pin SIMMs.
I tried recently to get 4mx9 30 pin parts and 16mb(4
of them) would be
about $65... 16mb 72pin parts are going for $19 around here new! Yet
I can find the 1mx9 parts for $3 used/tested. I happen to have a very
tiny 486slc/33 board that only can take 4simms (and must have 4!) so I
either have 4mb or 16mb as choices. I need a minimum of 8mb so I can
run useful stuff and a have just a few (dozen) 1mb parts!
First, there is a nice guy in Harrisburg PA, Lee Frank - he
runs a kind of surplus store, and they have used 30 pin 4 MB
modules as low as 6 USD. Look at http://www.surplustuff.com/
This gives some 24 USD for your 16 MB - the other prices
are also acceptable. He is a very patient and tries to help
wherever possible. This address looks also interesting for
more than just RAM :)
And for the 30 pin itself - the 1 MB types are anything but
rare - I guess I have some 40 or so back home, but I would
be happy to exchange them for 4 MB modules. I have the same
problem than you - no room within my 486 boxes - I have two
systems running as Linux based servers (486-133) and each
can hold two banks of 4 modules - so I can have up to 32 MB
- but one module costs some 45 Mark right now!
Gruss
Hans
P.S.: only 256K and 64K modules are realy rare
- the 4 MBs are only expensive
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