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The 8MB parity ram and the 256k that came with it
dankles:
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
fohfoh:
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!
boxer4:
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.
fohfoh:
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.
boxer4:
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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