[rescue] large lot of cheap 72pin memory on e bay

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:02:40AM -0400, Loomis, Rip wrote:
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2061278414
> > 
> > 100 pieces of 16meg 5V 72pin simms, both non-parity and parity.  Isn't
> > this basically what the Indy and Indigo2s use, amoung other machines?
> 
> The FPM parity modules should (would IME) be usable in Indy/Indigo2
> boxes, as well as in SPARC LX and similar boxes.  Those are probably
> worth $4-6 each, but they probably make up no more than 20% of the
> total.  I've bought from these folks before and they're reliable,
> at least--but they make no guarantees about the composition of this
> lot.  The non-parity modules are probably not useful unless one has
> a lot of old macs or slow Pentium PC boxes.
> 
> > There is a good chance that some of it would be gold plated.
> IME the gold-plated/non-gold-plated "must match" question is one
> of those nice-to-have but non-essential things.  I've not found a
> single system (out of sample size >30) which has ever had short-term
> or long-term problems from a mismatch between the metal of the SIMM
> socket pins and the metal pads on the SIMMs.  Has anyone else?
> 
> > I don't think that I really have the money to spend on this, but if
> > someone from here bought it, I would certainly love to buy a number of
> > sticks off of them for my macs and other machines.
> 
> Having a bunch of old macs (or a few really hungry Indy/I^2s) would be
> about the only way this would be sensible for most of us IMHO.  If someone
> does buy it and wants to get rid of some FPM parity memory, please drop
> me a line.

I figure I could use a least a dozen sticks on my macs, and probably
another handfull on PCs.

And it would be cool to max the SS classic,  err but I'm not sure if it
is a parity machine.  I seem to remeber having swapped some memory from
an IPX to it...

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd