[geeks] 256 Meg EDO ECC RAM available - lots of it

[Mark Benson]

On 26/05/2014 22:43, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 05/26/14 17:34, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> On a related topic, what can one do with older CPUs? I have a pretty big pile
>> of P3 Xeon, regular P3, and some old 300 MHz (and slower) UltraSPARC CPUs.
>> There must be someone that takes these for the gold inside... Any suggestions
>> other than arts & crafts projects?
>
> Years ago, I had a tray of prototype UltraSparc IV CPUs that I ended up
> distributing out to listers as paperweights when I desperately needed
> money from any source.  But P3s probably don't make very interesting
> paperweights, and BGA CPUs make much better paperweights than PGA ones
> anyway.

Rubbish, you just need some decent clear resin and get good at pouring 
it without getting bubbles in it ;)

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Mark Benson