@whitequark @tom_verbeure @azonenberg @M0KHR

MACs are 48 bit. So far there's still enough address space left for no collisions to be neccessary. And since bad things happen when you have an MAC address collision within a network segment, and the likelyhood of that only going up: I hope that 3com was an outlier.

3com bet on their doubly assigned cards to never meet in a shared broadcast domain. It happened within months.

@datenwolf @tom_verbeure @azonenberg @whitequark

Oooh, I had a batch of those once! Installed on a couple of office computers as a 100Mbit upgrade, and then they didn't work thanks to collisions! No wonder they were cheap.

Edit: actually they weren't even cheap. I remember jumping into my car and driving to Dixons to grab a bunch of cards to replace them because they were needed *now*

@datenwolf @azonenberg @whitequark @M0KHR Way too expensive! All I remember is that they were NE2000 compatible but Novell was too expensive as well. We used a single coax cable instead of UTP.

@whitequark

Yep, they work as long as you have the space for the adapters.

@whitequark

@SeaDonut this is not real tho

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems im using one of those right now lol, im lucky i happened to have a 16gb sodimm stick lying around

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems EVEN FOR DDR3???

@whitequark

I got a wee bit of DDR3 laptop RAM
- a bit of DDR4 laptop RAM
- some old RAM 386s, ealy Pentium systems
- several old hard drives (working)

None of it is for sale. Gonna be my backup system.

@whitequark @catsalad

This ram shortage adaptor shit is getting way out of hand...

#Aislop #Ramshortage

@whitequark

Edit: forgot to write anything.

Here's a review of them.

https://youtu.be/RKbEEqku9aU

@whitequark I need to grab a few of those

@sverx @whitequark the price isn't much different but if you need RAM in your desktop and you have some laptop RAM around, the high prices of both make this kludge worthwhile.

@sverx @whitequark Give it time.

@whitequark was gonna post this cus it came on my feed too but i fucking knew i wasn't the only one... Thanks ali....

@thejessiekirk @whitequark This is the question I'm here to find the answer to.

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems now make one that goes from ddr to lddr

@whitequark
Wait ddr3 is shoet now too???

@jn @ozzelot @RedstoneLP2 @whitequark can only be used with himem.sys then.

@jn @RedstoneLP2 @whitequark unlike himem, this one just adds 420 bytes to your RAM. May emit a pleasant smoke.