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Offline fohfoh

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The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« on: July 15, 2009, 09:25:10 PM »
I was recently cleaning out my company's office (First time in like 15 or more years) and I stumbled upon some very old motherboards and such. Of course, I don't really care about motherboards, but I found a box with 10 chunks of ram. 8 of which are super duper old school 256k ram pieces, one is an 8MB parity piece and the other is a boring and an "I don't care about it" 32MB piece.

I'm supposed to bring them to be recycled... but it seems a waste (except for the 32... that can go with no problem). Any ideas of what I should do with these archaic pieces of technology?

The 256ks are super cool. Almost looks like a comb.
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2009, 09:46:01 PM »
Ebay or donate them to a school.
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2009, 10:36:49 PM »
Quote from: sdedalus83 on July 15, 2009, 09:46:01 PM
Ebay or donate them to a school.

Ebay I can kind of understand, but a school?

OK... did a little research. These ram modules look like a design that predates the 30 SIMM module chips.
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2009, 10:59:33 PM »
I use a old-school piece of RAM for a keychain. It's not quite THAT old, but it's PC 133.

I even have a Intel 486 DX laying somewhere.
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2009, 11:49:50 PM »
Those are the old SIMM sticks that we are talking about right? Well in that case, yeah, it would make a great keychain. They are smaller and more compact than DIMMS, not to mention they look cooler too.

Anyways... thats my 2 cents....
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2009, 01:24:21 AM »
The 8GB piece is a SIMM. Yes, it looks better, is smaller and much cooler.

The other 8 256kb pieces predate SIMMS. Thus they look like combs and not conventional ram.

Frik... I can't find a pic of it. But for sure it doesn't look like those bug looking ones.
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2009, 02:07:19 AM »
Quote from: fohfoh on July 16, 2009, 01:24:21 AM
The 8GB piece is a SIMM. Yes, it looks better, is smaller and much cooler.

The other 8 256kb pieces predate SIMMS. Thus they look like combs and not conventional ram.

Frik... I can't find a pic of it. But for sure it doesn't look like those bug looking ones.
O yeah, I know what you are talking about. I forgot about those....
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2009, 03:36:21 AM »
Quote from: dankles on July 16, 2009, 02:07:19 AM
Quote from: fohfoh on July 16, 2009, 01:24:21 AM
The 8GB piece is a SIMM. Yes, it looks better, is smaller and much cooler.

The other 8 256kb pieces predate SIMMS. Thus they look like combs and not conventional ram.

Frik... I can't find a pic of it. But for sure it doesn't look like those bug looking ones.
O yeah, I know what you are talking about. I forgot about those....

Yeah... I can't seem to find a pic of it anywhere on the net. My keywords fail.
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2009, 04:42:02 AM »
Kinda like this?
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...that looks ghetto lol never seen memory that looked like that.

nm, lol think the guy just chopped some of the bug type RAM up to look like a comb >.>
« Last Edit: July 16, 2009, 04:45:22 AM by Zayras »
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #9 on: July 16, 2009, 04:43:03 AM »
Uhh yeah... but without the actual sawing of the ram... xD
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2009, 05:06:45 AM »
the only thing I could find was this:
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However it's not the type of module I was thinking of. I'm thinking of something that looks like a SIMM module, but has these sharp looking teeth things.

Google is failing me  :'(

Take a pic for us Fohfoh
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2009, 05:15:03 AM »
Yeah exactly it Dankles. But I left them at the office at my desk. (There's a pile about 6 boxes wide and 4 boxes high of computer stuff like printers, old monitors (CRT), desktops from a million years ago with missing pieces, and software/volumes of "how to use software" stuff. I'll take a pic tomorrow at work, or I'll just take the modules home with me. I think 6 of them are made by OKI or something, 2 from korea but no name.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't go to the office today. I'll grab it tomorrow hopefully and get a pic up by the weekend.

PICS UP!

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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2009, 02:34:16 PM »
Just like any old technology, not much you can do with it other than keychains, etc.

Looks like you have standard old 30 pin SIPs, seems like they went out of style fast versus the 30 pin SIMM variety.  If I remember correctly the 30-pin SIP and 30-pin SIMM had the same pinout, just one had pins versus fingers.

It almost seems like yesterday that 168 pin SDR DIMM was the common form of RAM... now obsolete...

I still use 72-pin SIMMs in my printer.  However I think most printers now even use DIMMs.
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #13 on: July 24, 2009, 03:46:52 PM »
The parity will make a good keychain, no so much the 32 MB piece. (Too long and big). The others (you called them SIPs?) don't make good keychains either. the comb looking connectors would break/scratch things in your pocket like no tomorrow.
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2009, 02:03:20 PM »
True, might well cut off all the pins :-(

On the other hand the SIPs (Single Inline Package, borrowed from ICs of the same form factor) can be plugged into prototyping boards without a socket, so if you're into playing with prototyping that's another use for it.  Then again I can't see how 256KB could be useful these days with a lot of today's memory hogging apps..

The two SIPs look like they're parity modules, the 72 and 168 look like just plain memory...
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #15 on: July 25, 2009, 02:16:41 PM »
Those are just the kind i was thinking about.
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Re: The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2009, 12:01:02 AM »
How could I have been beaten to ID'ing the "looks like a comb" as SIPS?  

T_T

Yeah, that's hardcore oldschool memory that was last used with the 286/386 family of CPUs.  I never owned a system that used SIPs - have had ones that used DRAM/ICs (ROFL - ever seen a tube of ICs - 256k memory upgrade - lmao - if ya haven't:  http://www.saturnsolutions.co.uk/images/IC%20Runner01.jpg - that's what a RAM upgrade looked like in the 80s ) & 30 SIMM though.  :)

I doubt donating to anyone would be of any use.   Selling them on ebay - they're worth less than the shipping you'd pay to mail em.

I've got a feeling - that the only person who could do anything with them -is a computer scrapper- pull the metal off & recycle them.  
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