Must be my writing but what I never said it was the gold that made it seem
faster. " it had
> >> gold ram in it and I subsequently bought four megs of the same ram",
but I guess people missed the point, if there was one. I'll make future
posts short and more to the point. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: Did you guys see this? 24 C1101A gold RAM chips = $418
> I'm sure that the reason that his computer ran faster was because of
the
> added RAM (7Mb vs 4 Mb) and not because of the gold on the ICs.
>
> Joe
>
> At 05:14 PM 1/27/04 -0800, Tom wrote:
> >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
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >>
>
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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
> >> >
> >
>
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