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Re: zig-zag RAM (was: System 5 or System 6?)



carbide@egine.com wrote:
> Paul R. Santa-Maria wrote:
> > mspangler wrote:
> > > Either that, or a bag of zig-zag DIP RAM chips. Or an adapter to go
> > > from zig-zag to anything else. I somehow came up with two of those odd
> > > 4MB cards that use them. Each has two meg soldered on, and sockets for
> > > the other two meg.
> > I have one or two PC video cards with these chips.
> > You are welcome to it(them) to see if the chips
> > work in your card.
> I've tried to buy/scrounge some of these in the past- there are some
> with more pins, and some are 1 bit wide while others are 8 bits wide...

Did you find any that worked?  It would be worthwhile to make
a list of PC video cards (and other sources) of these chips,
and note which ones contain usable chips and which ones do not.

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Paul R. Santa-Maria
Temperance, Michigan USA