cheap 16MB 30-pin RAM on eBay

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Fri Feb 1 20:34:47 2002

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Geoff Reed wrote:
> At 11:29 AM 2/1/02 -0600, Tothwolf wrote:
> >On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:
> >
> > > Some reseller on eBay evidently brought out his stash - he's selling
> > > several hundred SIMMs in lots of 4. He seems to have a lot of
> > > complaints - 197 negatives of 4900 feedbacks - but $15 for 64M ain't a
> > > bad gamble....
> >
> >Of course, 4900 feedbacks is alot too. From the picture, the simms look
> >like 70ns parity ram, but since the picture is off center, and he states
> >they are 80ns, the only way to know for sure would be to ask him. 70ns
> >parity modules could be used in many computers besides a Mac, but 60ns
> >would be much better for mid to late 486 and early pentium PC type boards.
>
> Nope, those are 16 MB Non-parity.

Are you sure? Count the chips and count the pins in the picture. Based on
that, they look like 70ns parity modules. Of course, that could be a pic
of some other simms, and not the ones up for sale.

-Toth
Received on Fri Feb 01 2002 - 20:34:47 GMT