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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 …