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Re: IIgs RAM Card Identification

Polymorph wrote:

Michael J. Mahon wrote:


Wow--I'd think that finding eight 41256s would be a lot easier and
less risky than desoldering them from a place where you might actually
want them!  Aren't there old PCs lying around chock full of 41256s?



Michael, normally I would agree with you, but I have Apple's first
attempt at a IIgs RAM expansion - the 256K variety (yes, fully loaded
it is 256K). And considering it isn't in use (and probably never will
be), I figured I might salvage the chips.


Wow!  That sounds like a "rare" card.  ;-)


I do have some old motherboards in storage somewhere, but they are
probably in the 586 vintage (I think they're old AMD or socket 7
boards). Are these boards likely to have 41256's? I guess I could dig
them out of storage and check, but I thought I read somewhere that
these chips were mostly in 286/386 vintage boards....


Yes, that was the happy hunting ground for 41256s (and occasionally
4164s on older systems).

There were also lots of ISA plug-in cards full of 41256s.  They used
to be readily available out of a barrel for $1 apiece.  ;-)  A typical
memory card would have 72 or more 41256 chips!

-michael

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