Re: IIgs RAM Card Identification

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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: 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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