Getting bent (ON topic if not thread)

From: Jack Peacock <peacock_at_simconv.com>
Date: Fri Mar 13 19:31:37 1998

>BTW, I've seen a few non-name SIMMs with dry joints between the
>surface-mount chips and the carrier board. Resoldering those
was an
>entertainment...
>
>Probably more on-topic for this list is a 30 pin SIMM that I
have in my
>spares box. It's 256K*9, using pin-through-hole chips (normal
41256 DRAMs
>in 16 pin DIP packages). It does use the normal SIMM pinout
AFAIK.


Those are adapter boards to convert old DIP DRAMS into SIMMs. I
did a bunch when 1MB SIMMs were $50 each. There are still
places that sell them, JDR in California for one.
        Jack Peacock
Received on Fri Mar 13 1998 - 19:31:37 GMT