@whitequark makes me think again of selling my laptops ram after i finish uni in the next months, now that its so expensive it could pay my rent for over a month.

@zimward surreal

@whitequark Just today I was saying that I have a lot of SO-DIMM RAM, but need proper DIMMs

@whitequark I'm kinda surprised this even works, I thought the length of traces and such matters quite a lot with DRAM

@eloy it does but only within the same byte group, between byte groups the difference could be large and compensating for it is a big part of DDR training

@whitequark @datenwolf

Once I have had removed all 640kb of RAM off a PC XT clone to check any issues, and re-seated them. Looked very much like this (image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/h8t32l/8088_motherboard_from_ibm_xt/)

@M0KHR @datenwolf yepyep, I think the earliest physical x86 hardware I've personally operated was a sub-ATX 386 and a few 486's besides that. fun toys

@whitequark ah, right, thanks!

@whitequark EDO-RAM to DDR5 adapter when? 👉🏻👈🏻🥺

@datenwolf

When I built my first own PC (with a 386SX16 cpu I believe), it was the time when the first time an epoxy factory burned down and RAM prices shoot up.

I only could source SIPP modules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPP_memory) for a reasonable price. Thankfully they basically were SIMM modules with pins soldered on the pads, so I could desolder the pins and then use them as SIMM.

But boy was I sweating while desoldering due to the risk of destroying them.

@whitequark

@whitequark

Life is gonna get real interesting when the AI boom collapses

@whitequark is laptop ram cheaper?

@whitequark

Just so everybody fixes in their mind, what all of this crazy is for

https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxs6xufAqYQuUAsVULEBWHJFdmtnXgahZc

@poggers.website @whitequark sure, I see the point...

@whitequark signel integritty is my pashion

@whitequark Scavenging old computers to make current ones work ... Cyber Punk is not dead.

@nela I would be quite curious about the results! especially if you can measure SI somehow

@mer @whitequark I have this suspicion that the normal use case is to be able to interface the SO-DIMM to a DIMM socket on a RAM tester

@datenwolf @whitequark I remember this thing in particular and how shock/vibration sensitive it made the PC