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Obsolete DRAM Collection

As you might expect by now, I harvest various bits & pieces from the PCs falling off the trailing edge of my assortment. The bag of obsolete DRAM recently floated to the top of the heap:

DRAM Assortment - overview
DRAM Assortment – overview

Half a gig of ECC RAM from what might have been a fire-breathing Pentium Pro box:

DRAM Assortment - 256 MB ECC
DRAM Assortment – 256 MB ECC

The PCBs along the top apparently filled vacant memory slots.

Some 32 and 64 MB DRAM from a few IBM laptops I turned into picture frames:

DDR2 DRAM in assorted sizes & speeds:

DRAM Assortment - PC2 DDR
DRAM Assortment – PC2 DDR

PC133 DDR DRAM, with four sticks of 1 GB PC3 along the bottom:

DRAM Assortment - PC133
DRAM Assortment – PC133

If you look closely, you may see something you can use. No reasonable offer refused …

Comments

3 responses to “Obsolete DRAM Collection”

  1. tantris Avatar
    tantris

    You could harvest the chips to reuse. Take a 32MB router that OpenWRT doesn’t want to support anymore and change it to 64MB.
    I’ve seen people modding routers and graphics cards, but what about ip-cams.. ?
    (See “router solder ram hack” in google or youtube, or “openwrt ram solder”)

    1. Ed Avatar

      I’m happy to send ’em to someone doing that sort of thing.

      Anybody who wants ’em: pay the shipping and they’re yours!

  2. Olli Avatar
    Olli

    ASUS M3N78-VM AM2+ Nvidia 8200 DDR2-1066 Nvidia Geforce 8200 IGP mATX Motherboard ($199.99, Used – Good)

    Bought a fresh one in September 2008 ($77) still in use.