Re: GS memory problem

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

jim pendarvis writes:

>Meanwhile. I have checked a couple of stores for chips. The first, a store
>specializing in used computer stuff (where I noticed that used doesn't
>necessarily equal cheap). They didn't have any. Then I tried MicroCenter
>(large warehouse store like CompUSA). I asked in the service department
>where I would have thought they might have encountered 256k chips at some
>point or another, say on an old video card, but they had absolutely no
>idea what I was talking about. 

Not surprising--many PC "techs" these days have never seen a DIP
DRAM.

Look for them in the "trash" bin on old 286 motherboards or on ISA
memory cards.  There were 4MB cards made with 256Kb x 1 chips--
144 of them! 1MB - 2MB cards were very common, and usually go
for a buck or so.

With luck, the fact that they don't know what you're talking about will
translate to a low price for the card.  ;-)

-michael

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