Common items you passed up that turned rare when you wanted them

[Bob Bradlee]

I have 8, 16m 30 pin sims in an old dual Pent 75 server I used as a 
web server long ago. Not quite within the 10 year rule yet, but real close.
It ran NT3.51 and Bob Denny's Website pro to host about a dozen
domains in the old days .

How about 30 pin sips, they look like sims but have pins not pads.
They date from a short period of time before sim sockets were available. 
256k or they could be piggybacked into 512k. Now they make the 
10 year rule easily as they were first seen on high end video cards and 
I have 4 megs of them in my first 386/16's.

later
Bob.

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:47:28 +0100 (CET), lee at geekdot.com wrote:

>> 256K and 1M 30-pin Simms always were fairly easy to come by;
>> 4M ones if you searched hard;

>Same here, I've a box full of 256K and 1M and a few 4M.

>> but 16M ones (as mentioned by the orinal message) have always
>> been like hens teeth - and I could have done with a couple for
>> my sound card :-(

>I've got a pair of 68020 VME cards that really could use four 16M
>30 pin SIMMs each but I've never even seen any. I wonder how hard
>it would be to transplant a more modern DRAM chip onto an old SIMM?

>Lee.