I'm sorry, but just because a lot of people believe a thing doesn't mean
it's true. (Unless you mean you can get the other believer(s) to pay
more :-)
The 1101's with gold tops are another thing entirely, (possibly)
extremely old, hence 'interesting'. Gold doesn't oxidize quickly, and is
a better conductor, and will likely improve reliability of connectors
under adverse conditions (like humidity, insufficient pressure, etc) but
it makes nothing 'go faster'. Tin/lead or other platings work fine as
long as you keep the physical environment in the computer OK.
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 15:21, Brian Mahoney wrote:
> I remember when I bought my first 'real' computer, an IBM 486SX-33, it had
> gold ram in it and I subsequently bought four megs of the same ram for
> something like $100.00. Somehow I had the computer working with 7 megs of
> ram and it seemed much faster than the four I originally got it with.
> Anyway, there was a discussion about why only gold ram (of course I mean ram
> that uses gold to coat the pins that fit in the slots) should be used in
> certain types of computers as opposed to the normal ram, which was lead or
> something like that. I did a search then and this was long before Google and
> came up with the concept that gold coated ram would 'heal' itself after the
> small teeth on the connectors grabbed it while the more normal ram let
> oxidants in which would, in time, ruin the chip. Now I am wondering if the
> gold ram connectors had teeth and the regular ram connectors didn't.
> To make a short story long, I sold the chips for exactly the same price I
> paid for them a year or so later to a place that bought ram for resale. I
> assume the guy wanted them for printers or something. He was astonished to
> see the gold connectors and after paying me the 100 bucks asked me if I had
> any more! At that time ram was far less than what I had paid for the two
> chips and I guess the premium was for the gold.
> I bet everyone will be scrambling around looking for gold ram over the next
> few days.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
> To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:14 PM
> Subject: Did you guys see this? 24 C1101A gold RAM chips = $418
>
>
> >
> <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2781001588&category=1247
> > &sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1>
> >
> > To hell collecting computers! We should rip them apart for the chips!
> >
> > </flamebait>
> >
> > Joe
> >
Received on Tue Jan 27 2004 - 19:27:10 GMT